Lobelia stricta Sw.

Lobelia stricta Sw. Prodr. 117. 1788
I.oMia arcolala Rich.; Juss. Ann. Mus. Par. 18: 3. 181 1. (Type from Guadeloupe.)
Rapuntium strictum Presl, Prodr. Men. Lob. 27. 1836.
7"yiomium y!a«s<:«is Presl. Prodr. Men. Lob. 32. 1836. (Nomen nudum.)
Tupa fiatescens A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 7: 395. 1839. (Type from Martinique.)
Tupa siricia A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 7: 395. 1839.
Dorimannia fiavescens Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 972. 1891.
Dcnrtmannia stricta " (Lam.) " Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 973. 1891.
Lobelia brigittalis B. H. L. Krause, Beih. Bot. Centr. 32»: 337. 1914. (Krause 21S32, Berlin 1)
Stem erect or decumbent, 20-135 cm. high, suffrutescent, often twisted or sinuous, coarse, the woody base often 1.5 cm. in diameter, covered with the reniform raised scars left by leafbases of previous years; whole plant glabrous or with bristly-pubescent inflorescence; cauline leaves 10-40, rosulate, crowded into a space of from 1-10 cm. of the axis (usually clustered 3-30 cm. below the inflorescence, often with 1-10 leafy bracts scattered along the axis between the rosette and the base of the inflorescence), the blades spreading or ascending, subcoriaceous, 2-3.5 cm. broad by 7-18 cm. long, about 3-5 times as long as wide, oblanceolate, usually widest at a point one-fourth to one-third the distance from the tip, evenly serrate with yellowish conspicuous spreading callose teeth 1-1.5 mm. long, 4-7 per cm. (the basal 1-2 cm. of blade often entire or with distant teeth somewhat longer than those of the rest of the blade), the apex acute, short-acuminate, the base long-attenuate, mostly narrowed into a short petiole 1 cm. or less in length; inflorescence erect, spicate, 10-35 cm. long, densely 20-100-flowered; pedicels spreadingascending, 7-15 mm. long in fruit, often somewhat curved so that the flower stands erect and the mature fruit is incurved, each pedicel with a pair of smooth linear serrate bracteoles 1-1.5 mm. broad by 7-15 mm. long, 1-8 mm. below the hypanthium; flower-bracts linear-elliptic to oblong or narrowly ovate, serrate, acute, 0.6-1 cm. wide by 2-4 cm. long; flower 17-20 (29) mm. long, including the h>'panthium; corolla greenish-yellow, the tube 8-12 mm. long, strongly falcate-recurved, entire except for the dorsal fissure, the two upper lobes linear, 7-12 mm. long, the three lower segments 5-9 mm. long, connate nearly half their length; filament-tube 9-13 (16) ram. long, somewhat deflexed and exserted, the filaments connate two-thirds their length; anther-tube 3.5-4.5 mm. long, the two smaller anthers white-tufted at tip, the others glabrous; hypanthium in anthesis cup-shaped, often shallowly so, in fruit similar, the margin flaring so as to make it saucer-like; capsule half infer or, 5-6 mm. across at widest part, 5-8 mm. long; calyx-lobes narrowly lanceolate or linear, acute, serrate with few-10 teeth on each side, 1.5-3 mm. wide by 5-10 mm. long; seeds ellipsoid-lenticular, reticulate, about 0.8 mm. long.
TvPB locality: Guadeloupe.
Distribution: Lesser Antilles, St. Kitts to St. Vincent, at elevations of 500-1200 ni.

Lobélie stricta est une plante vivace buissonnante endémique des Petites Antilles.

Lobelia stricta là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa chuông. Loài này được Sw. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1788.