[? f. LOP v.2] ‘A North American herb, Phryma Leptostachya, with spikes of small purple flowers, which in fruit are bent back close against the axis’ (Cent. Dict.).
1850. Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, Lect. Bot., App. 53. Phryma,… lopseed.
1856. Gray, Man. Bot. North, U. S. (ed. 2), 299.
