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Lindernia crustacea

Tūtae Tōrea

Lindernia

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Lindernia

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Tūtae Tōrea (RR MG AT MK MT AK)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Africa - Asia - Fiji - French Polynesia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Land, lowlands - valleys, wetlands

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Locally endangeredMedicine

KEY FEATURES: Small prostrate or erect herb to 15cm. STEM 4-angled. LEAVES opposite, adjacent pairs at right angles, wide oval widest towards base, to 20x10mm, tip sharp, base rounded; stalk 1mm. FLOWERS in axils, stalk 10-15mm, solitary; purple and white tube, compressed towards the end, with two lower petals and one upper petal (somewhat like a shovelnosed lobster). FRUIT ovoid, 4mm long.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
++	+++	++	++	+	++	-		-

Northern Group: -
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Lindernia crustacea Linnaeus
SYNONYMS: Capraria crustacea; Vandellia crustacea [incl. TC]; Antirrhium hexandrum

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); ASTERIDAE; Scrophulariales; SCROPHULARIACEAE

More Information

SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -
BIODIVERSITY: Locally endangered. Comment: NBSAP - Takitumu (2 of 6 wild plants), NBSAP - Puaikura (3 of 3 domestic plants)
POSITIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Medicine

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
None Recorded.

References:
p.1242 Wagner et al.- Flowering Plants of Hawaii
p.759? Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.5/081 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova
p.290 I Cheeseman - Flora of Rarotonga
p.97 Wilder - Flora of Rarotonga
p.409d Whistler - Ethnobotany of the Cook Islands

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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