Lindernia rotundifolia(L.) Alston

WFO wfo-0000446357 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lindernia rotundifolia, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-04 / obs. 186370073
Lindernia rotundifolia, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180321363
Lindernia rotundifolia, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180051592
Lindernia rotundifolia, photographed by portioid
fig. d portioid, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176107122
Lindernia rotundifolia, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. e Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 172537046
Lindernia rotundifolia, photographed by Lsf
fig. f Lsf, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170835737
Lindernia rotundifolia, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. g Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170703809
Lindernia rotundifolia, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. h Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 168213130

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Lindernia rotundifolia is native: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka MadagascarAssamBangladeshIndiaSri Lanka ComorosMauritiusRéunion
Native distribution of Lindernia rotundifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Comoros COM AFRICA
Madagascar MDG
Mauritius MAU
Réunion REU
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
India IND
Sri Lanka SRL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 99 in flower of 101 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Lindernia rotundifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 99 of 101 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bonnaya rotundifolia (L.) Benth.
  • Gratiola debilis B.Heyne
  • Gratiola integrifolia Roxb.
  • Gratiola rotundifolia L.
  • Ilysanthes hypericifolia Bonati
  • Ilysanthes madagascariensis Bonati
  • Ilysanthes oblongifolia Baker
  • Ilysanthes rotundifolia (L.) Benth.
  • Ilysanthes rotundifolia var. elongata Bonati
  • Morgania rotundifolia (L.) Spreng.
  • Torenia rotundifolia (L.) Cordem.
  • Virchowia cubensis Bartl. & Schenk

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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