Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort., 1827

🇬🇧 Round-leaved Fluellen

🇫🇷 Fausse velvote, Kickxie bâtarde, Linaire bâtarde

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Superasterids
Clade: Asterids
Clade: Lamiids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Tribe: Antirrhineae
Genus: Kickxia
Species: Kickxia spuria

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with K. elatine (L.) Dumort., 1827, whose leaves are are hastate or auriculate, while those of K. spuria are ovate or subcordate.

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

K. spuria subsp. integrifolia (Brot.) R.Fern., 1971: rare, leaves glabrous on their adaxial face;
K. spuria subsp. spuria (L.) Dumort., 1827: common, leaves entirely hairy, P.

Hybridizes with K. elatine (L.) Dumort., 1827 to produce K. × confinis (Lacroix) Soó, 1967, P.