Family: Plantaginaceae
Kickxia
Citation:
Dumort., Fl. Belg. 35 (1827).
Derivation: After Jean Kickx, Sr, 1775-1831, a Belgian professor of botany, pharmacy and mineralogy and author of a Flora of the Brussels region.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Toadflaxes, fluellens.
Description:
Annual or perennial herbs; leaves alternate, the lower sometimes opposite, petiolate, broad, pinnately veined.
Flowers solitary in leaf axils; sepals more or less equal; corolla 2-lipped, produced at the base into a spur, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed with at its base a prominent palate closing the mouth; stamens included; stigma entire.
Capsule with the 2 equal cells dehiscing by a single large pore with a detachable lid; seeds variable.
Distribution:
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About 25-30 species from the Mediterranean region to western India, Cape Verde and the Canary Islands; 3 European species are introduced into S.Aust. (Ros. Fernandes (1972) Fl. Europaea 3:238-239).
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Biology:
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Key to Species:
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1. Leaves rounded or cordate at the base, without basal lobes; sepals united in fruit; capsule depressed-globose; seeds alveolate |
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K. spuria subsp. spuria 3. |
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1. Leaves at least sometimes on a plant hastate or sagittate; sepals free in fruit; capsule subglobose; seeds tuberculate or alveolate |
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2. Capsule 2-2.5 mm diam., thick-walled; seeds tuberculate; pedicels 1.5-10 times the length of the subtending leaf |
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K. commutata subsp. graeca 1. |
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2. Capsule 3-4 mm diam., thin-walled, fragile; seeds pitted; pedicels 0.8-3 times the length of the subtending leaf |
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3. Pedicels glabrous apart from below the flower and at the base, at least when bearing fruit |
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K. elatine subsp. elatine 2a. |
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3. Pedicels hairy throughout |
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K. elatine subsp. crinita 2b. |
Author:
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