| Dicotyledon | Literature for Bacopa monnieri
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2020. |
| Plantaginaceae -- The Plantain Family | Bibliography |
| Bacopa monnieri | |
Common name(s): water hyssop, `ae`ae (Ni`ihau) |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Widespread in tropical and subtropical regions.In the Hawaiian Islands, indigenous to Midway, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Perennial herb; stems prostrate or loosely ascending, glabrous, forming mats, rooting at the nodes, 1‒6 dm long, branch tips sometimes ascending to ca. 30 cm tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves sessile or subsessile; blade fleshy, spatulate to cuneate-obovate, 5‒20 mm long, 3‒10 mm wide, apex obtuse to rounded; petiole 0‒2 mm long. |
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| Flowers |
Inflorescences axillary, flowers solitary. Flowers on pedicel 6‒20 mm long, sometimes slightly elongating in fruit; outermost calyx lobes broadly ovate, 4‒6 mm long, 2.5‒5 mm wide, inner ones narrowly ovate, 4‒5 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, calyx subtended by 2 linear bracts; corolla white to lilac or pale blue, 6‒10 mm long, 7‒8 mm wide, glabrous. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit conical to ovoid, 5‒8 mm long. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds pale yellow-brown, oblong, ca. 0.4‒0.5 mm long, longitudinally ridged. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 64, 68. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |
