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  1. Family: Plantaginaceae Juss.

    1. Bacopa Aubl.

        2. This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropics.

    [FTEA]

    Scrophulariaceae, S.A. Ghazanfar, F.N. Hepper & D. Philcox. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2008

    Habit
    Perennial or annual herbs, erect, diffuse or submerged aquatics, usually glabrous This is a creeping herb of moist and wet places with solitary, axillary white or pale blue flowers.
    Leaves
    Leaves opposite, entire or dentate, variously dissected or multisect in submerged species, sometimes punctate
    Flowers
    Flowers axillary, solitary or in racemes; pedicels with or without bracteoles
    Calyx
    Calyx unequally 5-lobed, outer lobes broadest, inner narrow
    Corolla
    Corolla almost regular, with all lobes equal or the upper 2 connate; corolla tube short
    Stamens
    Stamens 4, didynamous, included
    Stigma
    Stigma terminal, usually shortly 2-lobed
    Fruits
    Capsule globose or ovoid, 2 or 4-celled, loculicidal or septicidal
    Seeds
    Seeds numerous.
    Note
    It is surprising that the widespread Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennell has not been recorded from the Flora area, but is to be expected there
    [FZ]

    Scrophulariaceae, D. Philcox. Flora Zambesiaca 8:2. 1990

    Habit
    Annual herbs, erect, prostrate or decumbent, or floating, mostly glabrous.
    Leaves
    Leaves opposite, entire or variously dentate to crenate, or capillary-divided in aquatic species.
    Flowers
    Flowers axillary, solitary, pedicellate or sessile, bracteate or ebracteate.
    Calyx
    Calyx 5-partite; sepals imbricate, posterior broadest, lateral usually very narrow.
    Corolla
    Corolla bilabiate, upper lip bilobed or emarginate, lower trilobed.
    Stamens
    Stamens four, didynamous, perfect, included.
    Style
    Style apically dilated, entire or bilobed.
    Ovules
    Ovules many.
    Fruits
    Capsule ovoid to globose, 2 or 4 loculicidal or septicidal.
    Seeds
    Seeds small, numerous.

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    Distribution

    Doubtfully present in:

    Galápagos

    Native to:

    Afghanistan, Alabama, Alberta, Aldabra, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chad, Chagos Archipelago, Chile Central, Chile North, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Iowa, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maryland, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nebraska, Nepal, Nevada, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South Carolina, South China Sea, South Dakota, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

    Introduced into:

    Greece, Lesser Sunda Is., Marquesas, Portugal, Spain

    Accepted Species

    Synonyms

    Other Data

    Bacopa Aubl. appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Spruce, R. [s.n.] K000202439
    Campelo, M.J. [19], Brazil K001139024
    Andrade, K. [241], Brazil K001139023
    Burchell, W.J. [4773], Brazil K001139027
    Schessl, M. [s.n.], Brazil K001139026
    Gwynne-Vaughan, D.T. [15], Brazil K001139025
    Glaziou, A. [21827], Brazil K001139029
    s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], India K001132492
    Burchell [4419], Brazil K001139028
    Burchell [5868], Brazil K001139030

    Bibliography

    First published in Hist. Pl. Guiane 1: 128 (1775)

    Accepted by

    • de las Mercedes Sosa, M., Moroni, P. & O'Leary, N. (2018). A taxonomic revision of the genus Bacopa (Gratioleae, Plantaginaceae) in Argentina Phytotaxa 336: 1-27.
    • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.

    Literature

    Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • —F.T.A. 4, 2: 319.
    • Pl. Guian. 1: 128, t. 49 (1775), nom. cons.

    Flora Zambesiaca

    • Pl. Guian.1: 128, t. 49 (1775) nom. cons.

    Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Pl. Guian. 1: 128, t. 49 (1775), nom. conserv.

    Sources

    Flora Zambesiaca
    Flora Zambesiaca
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0