Kickxia elatine
sharp leaf fluellin, sharp point fluellin, sharp-leaf cancerwort, sharp-leaf fluellen, sharppoint fluvellin
petiole 2–6 mm;
blade: proximal 15–35 × 10–30 mm, base truncate or rounded to cuneate, distal 4–25 × 2–14 mm, base hastate to sagittate, villous with scattered glandular hairs.
10–22 mm.
sepal lobes lanceolate, 3–6 × 1–2 mm, not accrescent, apex acuminate, villous;
corolla tube 1–2 mm, palate yellow, inflated, hairy, spurs 5–6 mm, abaxial lobes yellow to violet, adaxial blue to violet, 2–3 mm;
abaxial filaments 1.5–2 mm, adaxial 1–1.5 mm;
style included, 1.3–1.5 mm;
stigma straight.
ovoid-globular, 3–5 mm.
1–1.5 mm, cristate-tuberculate.
= 36.
Kickxia elatine
Kickxia elatine differs from K. spuria in leaf and calyx characters. Two subspecies of K. elatine have been described [subsp. elatine and subsp. crinita (Mabille) W. Greuter]; they are poorly defined (D. A. Sutton 1988; M. Ghebrehiwet 2001) and differentiated on the basis of indument density.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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