Floscopa Lour.

Genus

Angiosperms > Commelinales > Commelinaceae

Characteristics

Herbs perennial. Rhizomes long. Leaves alternate. Inflorescences solitary or several, terminal or axillary in axils of apical leaves, each a broomlike panicle of numerous cincinni; bracts often small. Flowers actinomorphic. Sepals free, shallowly to strongly boat-shaped, leathery, persistent. Petals free, blue or purple, sometimes white, obovate, clawed. Fertile stamens 3 or 6, equal; filaments glabrous; anther locules connate, slightly divergent proximally, ellipsoid, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-loculed; ovules 1 per locule. Capsule 2-valved, slightly flattened, 1-grooved on each side. Seeds 1 per valve, hemispheric, reticulate or striate; hilum linear.
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Mediocre succulent annuals with erect or ascending stems frequently rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves alternate, with basal sheaths. Inflorescence terminal, diffusely paniculate, bearing very many small deliquescent flowers. Sepals 3, somewhat unequal. Petals 3, very unequal, the anterior much reduced. Stamens 6, rarely 5, in 2 dissimilar series; filaments naked. Pistil 2-celled.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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