Flora of North America species comparison

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Callisia repens

creeping inchplant
Habit 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.

Callisia repens
Phenology Flowering early spring (Tex) or summer–fall (Fla.).
Habitat Shady, rocky or gravelly places, and in citrus groves
Distribution
from FNA
FL; LA; TX; West Indies; South America (to Argentina) [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 22.
Parent taxa Commelinaceae > Callisia
Sibling taxa
C. cordifolia, C. fragrans, C. graminea, C. micrantha, C. ornata, C. rosea
Name authority (Jacquin) Linnaeus: Sp. Pl., ed. 2 1: 62. (1762)
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