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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Lobelia L.

LOBELIA L., 1753

Fls 5-merous, axillary, solitary or in racemes; receptacle adnate to ovary; corolla oblique, split to base at back, upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed. Staminal tube free from corolla; anthers connate, awn-tipped. Ovary 2-celled, ovules ∞; style filiform, stigma emarginate, often subtended by ring of hairs. Capsule 2-celled, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds minute, ∞. Mostly herbs with alt., us. toothed, simple lvs. Widespread genus with some 250 spp. L. anceps in various forms occurs also in Australia, Tasmania, S. America and S. Africa; the other N.Z. spp. are endemic.

Key

1
Stems ascending to sprawling; lvs entire or rather obscurely toothed; capsule elongate
1. anceps
Stems creeping and rooting, sts submerged in rock-debris; lvs distinctly, us. coarsely toothed; capsule broad
2
2
Stems sparingly branched; lvs not > ± 7 mm. diam.; peduncles very slender
2. linnaeoides
Stems much-branched; lvs mostly not < 12 mm. long, deeply cut; peduncles stout
3. roughii
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