Tropicos | Name - Oldenlandia callitrichoides Griseb.

Oldenlandia callitrichoides Griseb.

Flora Data (Last Modified On 9/11/2013)

Species	Oldenlandia callitrichoides Griseb.
PlaceOfPublication	Mem. Am. Acad. n.s. 8: 506. 1863.
Note	TYPE: Cuba, Wright 268, 1640, not seen.
Description	Prostrate herbs disposed as a mat, or erect to 10 cm tall, the stems smooth, glabrous, to 0.3 mm wide, branching profusely, the nodes usually well spaced. Leaves with a spathulate appearance because of elongate petioles, the blades ovate, rhomboid ovate to oblong, to 3 mm long, to 2 mm wide, acute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate, obtuse or rounded at the base, the lateral veins delicate, 3- 4, often evanescent, membranous, concolorous, drying green, glabrous; petioles shorter than or about as long as the blade; stipules adnate to the petiole base, often with a few dark red glands on the surface or on the margin, often with a narrowly oblong deciduous appendage to 0.5 mm long. Flowers not seen but apparently solitary in the axils. Fruits with pedicels to 3 mm long, the body ca. 3 mm long (including calyx), truncate, smooth, glabrous except on teeth, raphides abundant, the persistent calycine lobes apparently 5, triangular oblong, to 0.6 mm long.
Habit	herbs
Distribution	occurs sporadically in the tropics of the New World.
Note	This species has the smallest leaves of all the Panamanian Rubiaceae.
Specimen	COLON: Between Garotte and La Guiara, D'Arcy 9378 (MO). PANAMA: On stone wall near side- walk, Calle Estudiante, Panama City, D'Arcy 10190 (MO).