Lobelia hypnodes E. Wimm. ex McVaugh

Lobelia hypnodes F. E. Wimmer; McVaugh, Am. Midi Nat. 24: 698. 1940.
Annual (?^; stem erect, with a few small lateral branches below the inflorescence, about 2.5 mm. in diameter at base, green, up to 60 cm. high, glabrous or sparsely ciliate about the axils of leaves; cauline leaves about 10-12, spreading, membranous, glabrous except for scattered hairs near the base and margins, on the upper side; blades up to 3.5 cm. wide by 6.5 cm. long, ovate, rounded or cordate at base, short-acuminate at tip, the margins subentire with eallose teeth or sinuate-dentate, the teeth callose-tipped ; petiole distinct from blade, scarcely margined, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, ciliate on upper side; inflorescence somewhat secund, 14-23 cm. long, 25-3 1 -flowered, appearing short-pedunculate (3-6 cm.); pedicels spreading or standing at a 45° angle to the stem, filiform, 9-12 mm. long in fruit, short-prickly-pubescent, each wth a pair of bracteoles near the base, the tip of the pedicel abruptly bent so that the mature capsule is incurved toward stem; flower-bracts linear-subulate, usually ciliate, 3-5 mm. long, decurrent; flower about 10.5 mm. long, including hypanthium; corolla glabrous, nearly white (?), the tube fenestrate laterally and cleft dorsally almost to the very base, ciliate within, about 5 mm. long, the lobes of the lower lip narrowly elliptic, mucronate, about 4 mm. long; lower lip minutely pubescent at base within, the two upper lobes linear-subulate, about 1.5 mm. wide by 4.0 ram. long; filament-tube 4.5 mm. long, the filaments united about half their length; anther-tube 1.5 mm. long, the two smaller anthers white-tufted at tip, the others stifT-bristly on backs; hypanthium in anthesis with the tube scarcely visible, flat, at the base of the ovary, the calyxlobes erect; capsule wholly superior, at maturity ellipsoid, about 3 mm. across by 4 mm. long, surrounded by the ruptured but persistent corolla; caI>Tc-lobes narrowly deltoid, smooth, 2.5-3 mm. long, attached at base to the flat, disk-like hypauthium-tube; seeds roughened and cellularret iculate, dark browTi, about 0.5 mm. long, ellipsoid-oblong, trimcate at one end.
T^TE LOCAUTV: Vicinity of Tantoyuca, Vera Cruz, C&rdetias 482 (Field!).
Distribution: Vicinity of Tantoyuca, Vera Cruz.

Lobelia hypnodes là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa chuông. Loài này được E.Wimm. ex McVaugh mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1940.