Callisia repens

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassLiliopsida
4. OrderCommelinales
5. FamilyCommelinaceae

Native toArgentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador

Observations recorded4,023

Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, repent (flowering stems ascending). Leaves 2-ranked, gradually reduced toward ends of flowering stems; blade ovate to lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, 1--3.5 ´ 0.6--1 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins scabrid, apex acute, glabrous. Inflorescences sessile in axils of distal leaves of flowering stems, composed of pairs of sessile cymes (sometimes reduced to single cymes). Flowers bisexual and pistillate, odorless, subsessile; petals inconspicuous, white, lanceolate, 3--6 mm; stamens 0--6, long-exserted; filaments glabrous; ovary 2-locular, stigma penicillate. Capsules 2-locular. Seeds 1 mm.

via GBIF · Kew POWO

🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

981

With media

553

Family

Commelinaceae

Collections

FCN-UAQ, INECOL, UAZ, CICY, DCBS-DICTUS-USON, FC-UNAM

Recorded in

Mexico

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Callisia

Image

Kriechendes Schönpolster (Golliwoog).jpg

via Wikidata · CC0