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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Gila River Water-Hyssop, Gila River Waterhyssop, Western Hydranthele
Description
Genus Bacopa
Herbs, erect
or creeping
. Leaves opposite. Flowers solitary, axillary
or in terminal
racemes
. Bracteoles 1 or 2 or absent. Sepals (4 or) 5, entirely free
, imbricate, upper 1 largest, lower 2 next large, lateral
2 innermost and narrowest. Corolla tube
tubular
; limb patent
, conspicuously or obscurely 2-lipped; lower lip 3-lobed; upper lip 2-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous
or equal in length
, very rarely 5; anther
locules parallel, free. Stigma dilated
, capitate or 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid
or globose
, 2-grooved, 4-valved. Seeds numerous
, minute.
About 60 species: tropics and subtropics, mainly in America; three species in China.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Forb/herb
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lamianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Lamiales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Plantaginaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily:
Gratioloideae
()
- Tribe:
Gratioleae
()
- Genus:
Bacopa
()
- Aublet, 1775, nom. cons.
- Waterhyssop
- Specific epithet:
eisenii
- (Kellogg) Pennell
- Botanical name: - Bacopa eisenii (Kellogg) Pennell
- Specific epithet:
eisenii
- (Kellogg) Pennell
- Genus:
Bacopa
(
- Tribe:
Gratioleae
(
- Subfamily:
Gratioloideae
(
- Family:
Plantaginaceae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Ranapalus Eisenii
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Bacopa
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 12 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
B. caroliniana (Blue Waterhyssop) · B. crenata (Dentated Water Hyssop) · B. diffusus (Ornamental Bacopa) · B. egensis (Brazilian Water-Hyssop) · B. eisenii (Gila River Water-Hyssop) · B. innominata (Tropical Water-Hyssop) · B. monnieri (Coastal Water-Hyssop) · B. myriophylloides (Fine-Leaved Water Hyssop) · B. procumbens (Waterhyssop) · B. repens (Creeping Water-Hyssop) · B. rotundifolia (Disc Waterhyssop) · B. stricta (Yerba De Culebra)
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Further Reading
- Tsoong Puchiu & Yang Hanbi, eds. 1979. Scrophulariaceae (1). Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(2): 1-431. Tsoong Puchiu, ed. 1963. Scrophulariaceae (2). Fl. Reipulb. Popularis Sin. 68: 1-449.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:
- Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2655557
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-33041
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 33041
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 28309-2
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDSCR06040
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: BAEI
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 24206
Footnotes
- Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Bacopa". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 21. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
