Wahlenbergia lobelioides

Wahlenbergia lobelioides is a plant with flower of Campanulaceae . It is originating in Macaronésie.

It was described the first time by Carl von Linné the Young person in 1782, under the name of Campanula lobelioides . The specific name, lobelioides , announce its resemblance to the plants of the Lobelia . In 1829, Heinrich Friedrich Link carries out a taxinomic revision and places this species in the kind Wahlenbergia (Kind with which the name honors the Botaniste Swedish Göran Wahlenberg). The species takes then the name of Wahlenbergia lobelioides .

Risks of its description

The resemblance of this species to those of the kind Lobelia led Jean-Baptiste Bory of Saint-Vincent to place this one in this kind, after it observed it with Tenerife within the framework of the first stopover of the Expédition Baudin fine 1800: it describes it in the first volume of sound Voyage in the four principal islands of the seas of Africa under the name of lobélie Broussonet ( Lobelia broussonetia ) and thus intends to honor Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet, which it met at the time of the stopover.

According to Jean-Baptiste Bory of Saint-Vincent, the plant “has very-fibrous clusters of Racine S, whose a Tige oarswoman rises which divides a little after the exit of the Boue which nourishes it ”. He adds that “ his Feuille S is tender, of a Vert clearly, whole, obrondes and lengthened in Pétiole towards the base ” while “ the Pédoncule S are very-hails, long, with small a Bractée lancéolée about the middle and carrying small a Fleur (seldom two) equalizes, Blanc He, or mackled”

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