Lysimachia chenopodioides Watt ex Hook. fil.

As in the previous species there is some controversy regarding flower colour. J.D. Hooker (1882) states the colour to be pink, whereas Knuth (1905) as yellow. This needs to be verified.

A glabrous, erect or decumbent perennial 9-40 cm tall, branched. Stem and branches subangular, shoot tip minutely glandulose. Leaves 20-53 x 6-15 mm, alternate, ovate-cuneate, acute-subacuminate, upper ones smaller, decurrent, glandular-punctate, margin crisp, crenulate-wavy or entire, minutely puberulous, under surface lighter coloured. Petiole shorter or almost equalling the lamina. Flowers axillary solitary (-2), subsessile. Pedicel less than 1 mm, up to 3 mm in fruit. Calyx lobes subacuminate (apiculate), red glandular-streaked, margin membranous, towards apex minutely asperulous. Corolla campanulate, slightly exceeding the calyx; lobes ligulate, obtuse or subacute. Stamens opposite the lobes; filaments c. 0.8 mm, not exserted; anther ovate-cordate, less than the filament in length, yellow, glabrous, versatile; tube obscure, adnate to the corolla tube, glandular-stipitate. Ovary globose-ovoid, c. 1.5 mm broad. Style c. 1.8 x 0.5 mm, persistent, included; stigma subcapitate. Capsule globose, 3.5-4 mm broad, glabrous, dehiscing irregularly. Seeds 34-38 in number, trigonal, reticulate.

Herbs annual, glabrous, 7--50 cm tall. Stems erect or arcuate at base, quadrangular, usually much branched. Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite on lower part of stems; petiole 5--10 mm, narrowly winged; leaf blade ovate to rhomboid-ovate, 0.5--3.5 X 0.5--1.5 cm, sparsely dark purple or brown glandular punctate and striate, base attenuate, apex acuminate to acute. Pedicel 1--2 mm. Flowers solitary, in axils of upper leaves. Calyx lobes lanceolate, 3--4 mm, dark red glandular striate outside except on apex, margin membranous, apex ± recurved. Corolla white or pink; tube ca. 1 mm; lobes oblong-spatulate, 2--3 mm, reddish brown glandular striate, apex obtuse. Stamens included; filaments adnate to base of corolla lobes, free parts ca. 1 mm; anthers ovate, dorsifixed, ca. 0.5 mm. Ovary glabrous; style ca. 1.5 mm. Capsule globose, ca. 4 mm in diam. Fl. Jun.

Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), N. Burma, W. China.

Distribution: Kashmir to Simla and Missouri, Nepal, Bhutan, Yunnan, N. Burma and Pakistan.

SE Xizang, C and N Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Kashmir, N Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan].

2000-3100 m

Fl. Per.: July-August.

At margins of cultivated fields, grassy mountain slopes; 200--3200 m.