Callitriche japonica Engelm. ex Hegelm.

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Plantaginaceae > Callitriche

Characteristics

Plants terrestrial on wet soil, riverine mud, or graveled tracks. Petiole 1-1.5 mm; leaf blade expanded, 1.5-4.5 × 1-2.5 mm, shiny and very neat in appearance; venation simple, generally limited to 1 primary and a pair of secondary veins with occasional short veins arising within and outside secondary veins. Flowers solitary, most frequently a pair of axils with a carpellate flower opposed by a staminate flower; bracts lacking; styles 0.28-0.33 mm, ± straight; filament 0.2-0.4 mm, ± straight; anthers 0.1-0.2 × 0.1-0.3 mm; pollen ca. 13 × 15.4 µm. Fruit 0.7-1 × 0.7-1 mm, brown to blackish when mature, tapering toward base; wing 0.05-0.13 mm at apex, 0.03-0.08 mm at side. Fr. Mar-Aug.
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-11

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Images

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Distribution

Callitriche japonica world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:430008-1
WFO ID wfo-0000777549
COL ID 697PN
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Synonyms

Callitriche japonica Callitriche nana