(Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
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Species
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Oldenlandia lancifolia (Schum.) DC.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Prodr. 4: 425. 1830.
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Synonym
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Hedyotis lancifolia Schum. in Schum. & Thonn., Beskr. Guin. P1. 72. 1827. TYPE: not seen. Hedyotis longifolia Schum. in Schum. & Thonn., Beskr, Guin. P1. 70. 1827. TYPE: not seen. Oldenlandia longifolia (Schum.) DC., Prodr. 4: 426. 1830.
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Description
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Herbs, the stems slender, weak, glabrous to puberulent, smooth, the nodes well spaced, to 4.5 cm apart. Leaves sessile or subsessile, narrowly elliptic, often slightly inequilateral and curved, 1.5-5.5 cm long, 0.2-0.7 cm wide, attenuate acute at the apex and the base, the costa immersed or scarcely prominulous above, prominulous beneath, the lateral veins ca. 4, slender, strongly arcuate ascending, evanescent, membranous, smooth, minutely and sparsely puberulent above and beneath, the hairs strigose; stipules subulate and bifid, ca. 3 mm long, reflexed. Flowers not seen. Fruits subrotund, didymous, to 3 mm long, glabrous, the raphides numerous, the calycine cup short, the teeth 4, well spaced, acute, to 0.3 mm long; seeds numerous, ca. 0.2 mm long.
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Herbs
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Distribution
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occurs in the tropics of the Old and the New World.
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Note
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Steyermark (1974) describes the flowers: "Flowers solitary at the nodes, axillary or pseudo axillary, rarely 2, pedicellate; pedicels filiform, 0.5-3.0 cm long. Lobes of the calyx lanceolate or ovate triangular, acute to acuminate, 1.0-1.5 mm long, glabrous or scabridulous on the margins. Corolla white or rarely tinted with lav- ender or rose, hypocrateriform; tube 1 mm long, glabrous on the front and on the back; lobes equal or larger than the tube, 1-2 mm long."
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola, banana drainage ditch, D'Arcy 11171 (MO). CANAL ZONE: Low- land E of Gatun Locks, burned about 1957, Duke 4297 (MO). Railroad 2 km NW of Summit Gardens, 80 m, Nee 9431 (MO).
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