Ludwigia peploides subsp. stipulacea (Ohwi) P.H.Raven

Jussie flottante du Japon (fr)

Subspecies

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Characteristics

Herbs perennial, sprawling and rooting at nodes or floating, pneumatophores usually absent on floating stems but sometimes present on stems under water. Floating stems to 300 cm, terrestrial stems 10-60 cm, branched, ascending, glabrous. Petiole 2-35 mm; leaf blade oblong, 2.5-10 × 1-3.2 cm, lateral veins 7-11 per side, submarginal vein not prominent, base narrowly cuneate, apex acute or acuminate. Sepals 5, deltoid-acuminate, 6-12 mm, glabrous or villous. Petals bright golden-yellow with a darker spot at base, obovate, 9-17 × 5-11 mm. Stamens 10; filaments bright yellow, 2.5-5 mm; anthers pale yellow, 1-1.8 mm; pollen in monads. Style yellow, 2.5-5 mm, lower half densely long hairy; stigma depressed-globose, deeply 5-lobed. Capsule light brown, cylindric, somewhat 5-angled, abruptly narrowed at base, scarcely narrowed at apex, 1.2-4 cm, 2-5 mm in diam., glabrous, thickly walled, tardily and irregularly dehiscent; pedicels 2-6.5 cm. Seeds in one row per locule, firmly embedded in coherent cubes of woody endocarp fused to capsule wall, pale brown, 1.1-1.3 mm, raphe inconspicuous. Fl. May-Oct, fr. Jul-Nov. 2n = 16*.
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Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread hydrochory
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Images

Ludwigia peploides subsp. stipulacea unspecified picture

Distribution

Ludwigia peploides subsp. stipulacea world distribution map, present in China, Japan, and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:50962703-1
WFO ID wfo-0001087413
COL ID 5JFJZ
BDTFX ID 119900
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Synonyms

Jussiaea stipulacea Ludwigia stipulacea Ludwigia peploides subsp. stipulacea Ludwigia adscendens var. stipulacea