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Linaria 'Anstey'

Description

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Herbs, sometimes shrubs , rarely trees ; mostly autotrophic, less often hemiparasitic or parasitic. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, opposite, whorled , or basally opposite and apically alternate, simple or sometimes pinnately dissected . Inflorescences racemes , spikes, or thyrsoid panicles, determinate or indeterminate, or flowers solitary. Flowers perfect , usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic . Calyx often persistent , (2-) 4- or 5-lobed or -parted, variously connate . Corolla sympetalous ; limb (3 or) 4- or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens mostly 4, didynamous , sometimes 1 or 2 staminodes present, less often 2 or 5 stamens; anther locules 1 or 2, equal or subequal , free or confluent . Nectary often present at base of ovary, ringlike, cupular, or reduced to a gland . Ovary superior, 2-loculed, rarely apically 1-loculed; ovules numerous , rarely 2 per locule, on axile placentas, anatropous or hemitropous . Style simple; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, or 2-lamellate. Fruit a capsule, septicidal , loculicidal, or septifragal, sometimes opening by pores or irregularly dehiscent , rarely a berry. Seeds minute or rarely conspicuous , sometimes winged ; testa often reticulate ; hilum lateral or ventral ; endosperm fleshy or absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 220 genera and 4500 species: cosmopolitan ; 61 genera (seven endemic) and 681 species (415 endemic) throughout China but with a greater concentration in SW China.Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Scrophulariaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Genus Linaria

Herbs, annual or perennial . Leaves alternate, opposite, or whorled , often sessile; veins 1 or several and campylodromous . Inflorescences spicate , racemose, or rarely capitate. Calyx 5-lobed almost to base . Corolla tube tubular , base spurred; limb 2-lipped; lower lip convex , dilated toward center of upper lip, almost closed at throat , and making corolla personate , 3-lobed, densely glandular hairy ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer ; anthers anterior and posterior connivent in 2 pairs, locules parallel, divergent after dehiscence. Stigma apex often emarginate . Capsule ovoid or globose , apically dehiscing by irregular pores , valves irregular. Seeds numerous , flattened, often disclike with a broadly winged margin , rarely 3-angled and wingless or reniform and with a thickened margin.

About 100 species: northern temperate zones, mainly in Asia and Europe; ten species in China."Linaria". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 49. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Taxonomy

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Notes

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Linaria

There are approximately 904 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

L. 'Anstey' · L. 'Blue Dreams' · L. 'Blue Pygmy' · L. 'Globosa Alba' · L. 'Natalie' · L. 'Parham Variety' · L. 'Sue' · L. 'Toni Aldiss' · L. 'Winifrid's Delight' · L. 'Yalin' · L. acerbiana · L. acutangula · L. acutifolia · L. acutiloba · L. adzharica · L. aegyptiaca · L. aegyptica · L. aequitriloba · L. aequitriloba fragilis · L. aequitriloba subsp. fragilis · L. aequitriloba var. parviflora · L. aerugina · L. aeruginea (Linaria) · L. aeruginea 'Aureopurpurea' · L. aeruginea cardonica · L. aeruginea nevadensis · L. aeruginea nevadensis 'Gemstones' · L. aeruginea pruinosa · L. aeruginea subsp. cardonica · L. aeruginea subsp. nevadensis · L. aeruginea subsp. pruinosa · L. affinis · L. agglutinans · L. aguillonensis · L. alaica · L. alba · L. albifrons · L. algarbiensis · L. algarviana · L. algeriensis · L. almijarensis · L. alpina (Alpen-Leinkraut) · L. alpina 'Purpurea' · L. alpina 'Rosea' · L. alpina alpina · L. alpina benearnensis · L. alpina faucicola · L. alpina guarensis · L. alpina proles benearnensis · L. alpina propinqua · L. alpina subsp. benearnensis · L. alpina subsp. faucicola · L. alpina subsp. guarensis · L. alpina subsp. propinqua · L. alpina var. aciculifolia · L. alpina var. badalii · L. alpina var. odoratissima · L. altaica · L. ambigua · L. amesthystea · L. amethystea · L. amethystea ignescens · L. amethystea multipunctata · L. amethystea subsp. broussonetii · L. amethystea subsp. ignescens · L. amethystea subsp. multipunctata · L. amethystea var. ignescens · L. amethystina · L. amoi · L. amoris · L. angustealata · L. angustifolia · L. angustissima (Italian Toadflax) · L. annua · L. anthirrhinoides · L. anticaria · L. anticaria 'Antique Silver' · L. anticaria cuartanensis · L. anticaria rossmassleri · L. anticaria subsp. cuartanensis · L. anticaria subsp. rossmassleri · L. antilibanotica · L. aparinoides · L. apennina · L. aphylla · L. arabiniana · L. aragonensis · L. araratica · L. arcusangeli · L. arenaria · L. arenicola · L. arenosa · L. aristides · L. armeniaca · L. arrabidensis · L. arvensis · L. arvensis micrantha · L. arvensis simplex · L. ascalonica · L. asparagoides

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Last Revised: 2008-09-07