Angelonia angustifolia

Common name(s): angelonia, monkey face, narrowleaf angelon, willowleaf angelon

Habit:　herb

Description: 

Genus:  "Erect, creeping, or climbing herbs, rarely shrubs, pilose or viscid-pubescent, sometimes glabrate; leaves opposite or verticillate (or distal ones alternate), essentially sessile, the blades oblong or lanceolate; inflorescences terminal racemes or flowers solitary or paired in leaf axils; flowers zygomorphic; calyx deeply 5-lobed, without bracteoles at base; corolla subrotate to 2-lipped, the limb widely cupuliform, short-spurred, 5-lobed, the lobes spreading, 4 of them broad and flat, the lower one cupuliform in lower half, the throat broadened into a saclike cup; stamens 4, borne on dorsal side of cupuliform part of corolla limb, the filaments short, thick, curved, the anthers 2-locular; ovary globose or ovoid, the style subulate, the stigma capitate; capsule globose or ellipsoid, loculicidally 2-valved, rarely indehiscent."

Species:  "Perennial herb to to cm high...; the corolla is blue or purplish or sometimes is noted as white.  (Smith, 1991; p. 77).

Habitat/ecology:  In Fiji, "cultivated in gardens and locally naturalized from near sea level to about 550 m" (Smith, 1991; p. 77). In New Caledonia, "est cultivé et parfois naturalisé" (MacKee, 1994; p. 128).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  "Mexico, Central America, and West Indies, cultivated elsewhere...and sometimes naturalizing" (Smith, 1991; p. 77).

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