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Mollugo verticillata L.

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Flora Data (Last Modified On 1/28/2013)

Species	MOLLUGO VERTICELLATA L.
PlaceOfPublication	Sp. P1. 89. 1753.
Synonym	Pharnaceum hoffmannseggianum Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 6:692. 1820. Mollugo dichotoma Schrank, PI. Rar. Hort. Monac. t. 64. 1821. Mollugo arenaria HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6:20. 1823. Mollugo hoffmannseggiana (Roem. & Schult.) Ser. in DC. Prod. 1:393. 1824. Mollugo schrankii Ser. loc. cit. 391. 1824. Pharnaceum verticellatum (L.) Spreng. Syst. 1:949. 1825. Pharnaceum. arenarium (HBK.) Spreng. loc. cit. 1825. Mollugo juncea Fenzl, in Ann. Wien Mus. 1:378. 1836. Mollugo diffusa Willd. ex Fenzl. loc. cit. 377. 1836, nom. nud. in syn. Mollugo spergulaefolia Willd. ex Fenzl, loc. cit. 378. 1836, nom. nud. in syn. Mollugo triphylla Schrank, ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2. 2:154. 1841, nom. nud. in syn. Mollugo gracillirma Anders. in Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. 1 8 5 3:2 2 6. 1 8 5 5. Pharnaceum cerviana Mart. ex Rohrb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 142:241. 1872, non L., nom. nud. in syn. Mollugo axillaris Schlecht. ex Rohrb. loc. cit. 242. 1872, nom. nud. in syn.
Description	Annuals, prostrate to ascending, often falsely dichotomously branched. Leaves pseudoverticellate, 3-6 per node, unequal, generally oblong-linear, 1-3 cm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, more or less acute at the apex, gradually tapered to the base; sessile. Inflorescence axillary, modified cymose; pedicel 3-5 mm. long. Flowers with the tepals elliptic, about 2.0-2.5 mm. long, 0.5-0.75 mm. broad, persistent and subtending the fruit, glabrous; stamens 3, the filaments filiform, to 2 mm. long, connate at the very base, the anthers ovoid, about 0.25 mm. long and broad; ovary ovoid, 3-loculate, 1.0-1.5 mm. long, the styles 3, 0.5-0.75 mm. long, spreading. Capsule ovoid, 2-3 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. in diameter; seeds numerous, reni- form, about 0.5 mm. long and broad, the testa with several distinct ridges along the back and sides, brown.
Distribution	Cosmopolitan weeds in the temperate and tropical regions of the world.
Note	This species has a rather large and complex synonomy involving numerous infraspecific categories which are not included here in the synonymy.
Specimen	CANAL ZONE: Chagres, Fendler 1-I. PANAMA: San Jose Island, Johnston 1232.

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