Comprehensive Description
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anglais
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fourni par North American Flora
Hydrocotyle lanipes Urban & Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. 22A 10 : 42. 1929.
Stems filiform, creeping, glabrous; leaves thin, peltate, suborbicular, 3-9 mm. in diameter, 7-nerved, 7-crenate, the crenations 2-3-crenulate, sparsely setulose near the margins above, glabrous beneath; petioles 3-15 mm. long, pilose or with white, subretrorse, lanate hairs; inflorescence a simple, axillary, interrupted spike, 15-30 mm. long, with 1-5 few-flowered verticils; flowers subsessile; peduncles filiform, more or less pilose; involucre of triangularlanceolate or lanceolate bracts; fruit suborbicular, 0.7-0.8 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, glabrous.
Type locality: Haiti, "Central Plain prope Belladere ad Riviere Jouan-de-Vere, ubi via ad Savanette cum rivulo ducussatur, in lapide," Ekman 115640. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- citation bibliographique
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
