Lobelia homophylla E. Wimm.

Lobelia homophylla F. E. Wimmer, Repert. Sp. Nov 22: 194. 1926.
Lobelia clifforliana var. xalapensis A. Gray, Svn. Fl. 2': 7. 1878. Not Ixibelia xalapensis H.B.K. 1819.
Stem erect, simple or with ascending subordinate branches, 5 mm. in diameter or less at base, few-50 (75) cm. high, green, or rarely somewhat purplish, glabrous or with a few hairs below; leaves few-20, cauline but sometimes clustered near base, membranous when dry, glabrous or sparsely hairy near base and on veins above, the blades up to 4.5 cm. wide, 6 cm. long, sHghtly longer than broad or not so, ovate, obtuse at tip, rounded or cordate at base and then attenuate into a narrowly margined petiole 1-4 cm. long, the margins coarsely and irregularly toothed, the teeth usually blunt or broad-pointed; inflorescence few-40 cm. long, not secund, few-50-flowered, often corymbose when young, appearing pedunculate, the stem naked 3-9 cm. below the lowest bract; lower flowers often distant; pedicels slender, spreading or rather strongly ascending, mostly 10-15 mm. long in fruit, glabrous, bracteolate at base; flower-bracts subulate, entire, glabrous or ciliate on margins, 3-5 mm. long or the lowermost larger; flower 6.5-10 mm. long, including h)-panthium; corolla blue, glabrous without, the tube sparsely hairy within, 4.0-4.8 mm. long, entire except for the dorsal fissure, which extends to a point less than 1 mm. from base, the three lower lobes elliptic or ovate, fused into a distinct lip, the two upper lobes narrow, linear or nearly so, erect; filament-tube 3.0-3.5 mm. long, the filaments glabrous distally, free half their length and there slightly hairy; anther-tube 1.0-1.5 mm. long, bluish gray, the three larger anthers bristly near tips or glabrous; hypanthium in anthesis flat or shallowly cup-shaped, enlarging and shallowly cup-shaped in fruit, glabrous; capsule 2.5-4 mm. in diameter, 4-6 mm. long, ellipsoid, one-fourth to one-third inferior; calyxlobes linear-subulate, entire, 2-3.5 mm. long, glabrous or ciliate on the margins; seeds ellipsoid, brown, highly polished, smooth, about 0.4 mm. long.
Type locality: St. Augustine, Florida. Curliss 6363 (isotype, US'). Distribution: Peninsular Florida, north about to St. Johns County.

Lobelia homophylla là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa chuông. Loài này được E.Wimm. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1926.