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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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Species
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CALLISIA CORDIFOLIA (Sw.) Anders. & Woods.
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Contr. Arn. Arb. 9:117. 1935.
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Synonym
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Tradescantia cordifolia Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 57. 1783. Leiandra cordifolia (Sw.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 2:16. 1836[1837]. Callisia meiandra Sauvalle, Fl. Cub. 159. 1873. Tradescantia Floridana S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 17:381. 1882. Tradescantella Floridana (S. Wats.) Small, Fl. Southeast. U. S. 238. 1913.
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Description
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Small creeping herbs; stems slender, rooting at the nodes, glabrous. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base, sessile, 0.5-3.0 cm. long, greatly reduced toward the inflorescence, glabrous; sheaths 0.2-0.5 cm. long, glabrous. Inflorescence umbelliform, few-flowered, terminal, occasionally also lateral in the axils of the reduced upper leaves, subtended by 2 inconspicuous, slightly foliaceous bracts 0.1-0.3 cm. long; pedicels 0.2-0.3 cm. long, minutely puberulent. Flowers inconspicuous, white; sepals lanceolate, 0.15-0.2 cm. long, scarious or very slightly foliaceous; petals about 0.25 cm. long.
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Distribution
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Peninsular Florida and southeastern Mexico to northern Colombia; Greater Antilles. In wet forests and fields at low elevations.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Darien Station, Standley 3I545; Las Cascadas, Pittier 2593. COCLEf: Bismarck, Williams 614. PANAMA: Old Panami, Killip 323I; Rio Tecu'men, Standley 26742.
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