《中国植物志》|| 玄参科 SCROPHULARIACEAE ||泥花草组 Sect. Bonnaya (Link et Otto) Philcox ||泥花草 Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston

21．泥花草（海南植物志）
Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston in Trim. Handb. Fl. Ceyl. 6. Suppl. 214. 1931; Philcox, Kew Bull. 17: 484. 1964, et 22: 57. p. 11. f. 5-8. 1968; 海南植物志3: 508. 图888 1974. ——Ruellia antipoda L. Sp. Pl. 635. 1753. ——Bonnaya veronicifolia(Retz.)Spreng. Syst. Veg. 41. 1824; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 421. 1846; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4: 285. 1884.——Lindernia veronicifolia(Retz.)F. Muell. Fragm. 6: 101. 1867. excl. syn. ——Bonnaya antipoda(L.)Druce, Rep. Bot. Exch. Cl. Brit. Isles 3: 415. 1914. ——Ilysanthes antipoda(L.)Merr. Interp. Rumph. Herb. Amb. 467. 1917. excl. Ruellia anagallide;广州植物志602. 1956. ——Yandellia veronicifolia(Retz. )Haines, Bot. Bihar et Orissa 633. 1922.
一年生草本，根须状成丛；茎幼时亚直立，长大后多分枝，枝基部匍匐，下部节上生根，弯曲上升，高可达30厘米，茎枝有沟纹，无毛。叶片矩圆形、矩圆状披针形、矩圆状倒披针形或几为条状披针形，长0.3-4厘米，宽0.6-1.2厘米，顶端急尖或圆钝，基部下延有宽短叶柄，而近于抱茎，边缘有少数不明显的锯齿至有明显的锐锯齿或近于全缘，两面无毛。花多在茎枝之顶成总状着生，花序长者可达15厘米，含花2-20朵；苞片钻形；花梗有条纹，顶端变粗，长者可达1.5厘米，花期上升或斜展，在果期平展或反折；萼仅基部联合，齿5，条状披针形，沿中肋和边缘略有短硬毛；花冠紫色、紫白色或白色，长可达1厘米，管长可达7毫米，上唇2裂，下唇3裂，上、下唇近等长；后方一对雄蕊有性，前方一对退化，药消失，花丝端钩曲有腺；花柱细，柱头扁平，片状。蒴果圆柱形，顶端渐尖，长约为宿萼的2倍或较多；种子为不规则三棱状卵形，褐色，有网状孔纹。花、果期春季至秋季。
分布于云南、四川、贵州、广西、广东、湖南、湖北、安徽、江西、福建、浙江、江苏和台湾等省。从印度到澳大利亚北部的热带和亚热带地区广布。多生田边及潮湿的草地中。
全草可药用。

《云南植物志》|| 玄参科 Scrophulariaceae ||母草属 Lindernia All. ||泥花母草 Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston

11.泥花母草（海南植物志）
Lindernia antipoda (L.) Alston (1931); Philcox (1964), et (1968)*; 海南植物志 (1974)*; 中国植物志 (1979); 云南种子植物名录 (1984); Fl. China (1998).
Ruellia antipoda L. (1753); Gratiola veronicifolia Retz. (1786); Bonnaya veronicifolia (Retz.) Spreng. (1824); Benth. in DC. (1846); Hook. f. (1884); Lindernia veronicifolia (Retz.) F. Muell. (1867) (excl. syn); Bonnaya antipoda (L.) Druce (1914); Ilysanthes antipoda (L.) Merr. (1917); excl. syn.: Ruellia anagallide; 广州植物志 (1956); Vandellia veronicifolia (Retz.) Haines (1922).
一年生草本。根须状成丛；茎幼时近直立，后多分枝，枝基部匍匐，下部节上生根，弯曲上升，高可达30厘米，茎枝有沟纹，无毛。叶片长圆形、长圆状披针形、长圆状倒披针形或几为线状披针形，长0.8-4厘米，宽0.6-1.2厘米，先端急尖或圆钝，基部楔形，有由叶基下延而成的宽短叶柄，边缘有少数不明显的锯齿至有明显的锐齿或近于全缘，两面无毛。花多在茎枝之顶成总状着生，花序长者可达15厘米，含花2-20朵；苞片钻形；花梗有条纹，顶端变粗，长者可达1.5厘米，花期上升或斜展，在果期平展或反折；萼仅基部联合，齿5，线状披针形，沿中肋和边缘略有短硬毛；花冠紫色、紫白色或白色，长可达1厘米，管长可达7毫米，上唇2裂，下唇3裂，上、下唇近等长；后方一对雄蕊有性，前方一对退化，药消失，花丝端钩曲有腺体；花柱细，柱头扁平，片状。蒴果圆柱形，顶端渐尖，长约为宿萼的2倍或较多；种子为不规则三棱状卵形，褐色，有网状孔纹。花、果期春季至秋季。
产罗平、金平、元阳、勐腊、景洪、勐海、昆明、峨山、景东、泸水；生于海拔330-1500米的沟谷、河滩、田边及草坡灌丛阴湿处。分布于四川、贵州、广西、广东、湖南、湖北、安徽、江西、福建、浙江、江苏和台湾等省。印度至澳大利亚北部的热带和亚热带地区广布。
全草可药用。

《Flora of China》|| Scrophulariaceae || Lindernia ||泥花草 Lindernia antipoda

23. Lindernia antipoda (Linnaeus) Alston in Trimen, Hand. Fl. Ceylon. 6(suppl.): 24. 1931.

泥花草 ni hua mu cao

Ruellia antipoda Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 635. 1753; Bonnaya antipoda (Linnaeus) Druce; B. veronicifolia (Retzius) Sprengel; Gratiola veronicifolia Retzius; Ilysanthes antipoda (Linnaeus) Merrill; Lindernia veronicifolia (Retzius) F. Mueller; Vandellia veronicifolia (Retzius) Haines.

Annuals to 30 cm tall. Roots fibrous, fascicled. Stems suberect or prostrate basally and rooting from lower nodes then ascending, many branched, channeled, glabrous. Petiole short and wide; leaf blade oblong, oblong-lanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 0.8-4 X 0.6-2 cm, glabrous, base cuneate and decurrent, margin obscurely to sharply serrate or subentire, apex acute to rounded. Racemes terminal, to 15 cm, 2-20-flowered; bracts subulate. Pedicel to 1.5 cm, ascending, spreading, to deflexed in fruit. Calyx lobed to base; lobes lanceolate, hispidulous along midrib and edges. Corolla purple, purplish white, or white, to 1 cm; tube to 7 mm; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes subequal; upper lip 2-lobed. Fertile stamens 2, posterior; filaments unapendaged. Reduced stamens 2, anterior; filaments slightly curved, glandular. Stigma lamellate. Capsule cylindric, 2 X or more as long as persistent calyx. Seeds brown, irregularly triangular-ovoid; seed coat reticulate. Fl. and fr. spring-autumn.

Rice fields, wet grassland; below 1700 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia, Pacific Islands].

Used medicinally.

According to T. Yamazaki (Fl. Thailand 5(2): 198. 1990) Lindernia viaticaLinderniaviatica (Kerr ex Barnett) Philcox occurs in Taiwan. It closely resembles L. antipoda, but we have not seen any specimens from Taiwan.