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Hebe lycopodioides patula

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.

Taxonomy

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Similar Species

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Members of the genus Hebe

There are approximately 786 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

H. 'Alicia Amherst' (Hebe) · H. 'Amanda Cook' · H. 'Amethyst' · H. 'Amy' (Hebe) · H. 'Andersonii Variegata' (Variegated Hebe) · H. 'Anita' · H. 'Anne Pimm' · H. 'Aoira' · H. 'April Joy' · H. 'Arthur' · H. 'Autumn Beauty' · H. 'Autumn Blue' · H. 'Autumn Blush' · H. 'Autumn Glory' (Hebe) · H. 'Autumn Joy' · H. 'Autumn Queen' · H. 'Avalon' · H. 'Azurea' · H. 'Azurens' · H. 'Baby Blush' · H. 'Baby Marie' · H. 'Balfouriana' · H. 'Barnettii' · H. 'Beatrice' · H. 'Beverley Hills' · H. 'Bicolor Wand' · H. 'Black Beauty' · H. 'Blonde' · H. 'Blue Clouds' · H. 'Blue Diamond' · H. 'Blue Elf' (Hebe) · H. 'Blue Gem' · H. 'Blue Shamrock' · H. 'Blue Star' · H. 'Blue Streak' · H. 'Blue Wand' · H. 'Bluebell' · H. 'Blush Wand' · H. 'Boscawenii' · H. 'Bouquet' · H. 'Bowles' Hybrid' · H. 'Bowles' Variety' · H. 'Bracken Hill' · H. 'Bracken Hills' · H. 'Brian Kessell' · H. 'Brill Blue' (Hebe) · H. 'Brockiei' · H. 'Bronzy Baby' · H. 'Buccleugh' · H. 'C.P. Raffill' · H. 'Caledonia' (Hebe) · H. 'Candy' · H. 'Carl Teschner' · H. 'Carnea Tricolor' · H. 'Carnea Variegata' · H. 'Carnea' · H. 'Cassinioides' · H. 'Celine' · H. 'Chalk's Buchananii' · H. 'Champagne' · H. 'Champion' · H. 'Champseiont' · H. 'Charming White' · H. 'Christabel' · H. 'Christensenii' · H. 'Cilsouth' · H. 'Clear Skies' (Hebe) · H. 'Colwall Blue' · H. 'Colwall' · H. 'Combe Royal' · H. 'Conwy Knight' · H. 'Coral Blue' · H. 'Coral Pink' · H. 'County Park' · H. 'Craig Park' · H. 'Cranleighensis' · H. 'Crawii' · H. 'Cressit' · H. 'Croftway Emberglow' · H. 'Cupins' · H. 'David Hughes' · H. 'Dazzler' · H. 'Deans Fya' · H. 'Debbie' · H. 'Denise' · H. 'Diamond' · H. 'Diana' · H. 'Dianne' · H. 'Dorothy Peach' · H. 'Douglasii' · H. 'E.A. Bowles' · H. 'E.B. Anderson' · H. 'Early Blue' · H. 'Edinensis' · H. 'Edington' · H. 'Ellen' · H. 'Emerald Dome' · H. 'Emerald Gem' · H. 'Emerald Green' (Hebe) · H. 'Ettrick Shepherd'

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Last Revised: 2008-09-11