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Genus Lysimachia Family Primulaceae

Synonyms: Anagallis APNI*

Description: Perennial herbs usually without rosettes (young plants may have rosette form); stems erect to prostrate, pubescent towards the apex with multicellular glandular hairs or glabrous, often stoloniferous.

Leaves opposite, alternate or occasionally in whorls.

Flowers in racemes, panicles or corymbs or solitary and axillary. Sepals free. Corolla yellow, white, pinkish, red, orange or blue. Staminodes lacking. Ovary superior.

Capsule dehiscent from the apex (splitting longitudinally), usually by 5 valves or occasionally splitting irregularly, or circumsciss (splitting transversely).


Distribution and occurrence: World: 150–250 species, cosmopolitan, especially Northern Hemisphere. Australia: 8 species, N.S.W., Qld, Vic., Tas., N.T., S.A., W.A.

Formerly placed in Myrsinaceae. Reference: P.G. Kodela, Lysimachia (Myrsinaceae) in New South Wales, Telopea 11(2): 147–154 (2006).

Text by based on G.J. Harden, Fl. NSW Vol. 1 (1990); updated by P.G. Kodela, May 2014, March 2017
Taxon concept: Australian Plant Census (accessed March 2017)

 Key to the species 
1Leaves opposite; petals red, pink, orange and blue; petals longer than sepalsAnagallis arvensis
Leaves alternate; petals white to pink; petals shorter than sepalsAnagallis minima

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