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Callisia cordifolia E.S.Anderson & Woodson

Florida roseling (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Commelinales > Commelinaceae > Callisia

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, mat-forming. Leaves 2-ranked, gradually reduced toward end of flowering shoot; blade lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic to ovate, 1--3 ´ 0.5--1.4 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins scabrous, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal and axillary from distal leaves, pedunculate, composed of pairs of sessile cymes; bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, 2--6 mm. Flowers odorless, 4--5 mm wide, pedicillate; sepals distinct, maroon, 2--3 mm; petals white, ovate, 2.5 mm; stamens 6, nearly equal or antipetalous stamens slightly longer than antsepalous; filaments glabrous; ovary 3-locular. Capsules 3-locular. Seeds 0.6--0.7 mm. 2n = 14 (as floridana).
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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.
Life form
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.1
Root system creeping-root
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Environment

Light 4-6
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Callisia cordifolia world distribution map, present in Belize, Cuba, Ecuador, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:42439-2
WFO ID wfo-0000343256
COL ID PT9F
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Synonyms

Callisia cordifolia Leiandra cordifolia Phyodina cordifolia Tradescantella floridana Tripogandra cordifolia Tradescantia floridana Callisia meiandra Spironema robbinsii Tradescantia cordifolia
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