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Bosc's Mille Graines

Oldenlandia boscii (DC.) Chapm.

Comprehensive Description

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Oldenlandia boscii (DC.) Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 181. 1860
Hedyotis Boscii DC. Prodr. 4: 420. 1830.
Perennial, glabrous throughout, usually with slender rootstocks, erect or decumbent, 1-3 dm. high, the stems usually numerous and much branched, the branches slender, subangulate, the internodes mostly shorter than the leaves; stipules 1-2 mm. long, the lobes bicuspidate or laciniate-dentate, the teeth tipped with red glands; leaves sessile or short-petiolate, mostly divaricate, the blades linear or elliptic-linear, 8-25 mm. long, 1-4 mm. wide, acute-io attenuate at the apex, attenuate at the base, thin, bright-green, 1-nerved; flowers few or solitary in the axils, subsessile; hypanthium about 1 mm. long, the calyx-lobes as long or longer, lance-triangular, acuminate, approximate in fruit; corolla subrotate, white, about half as long as the calyx-lobes; capsule subglobose, 2-2.5 mm. long, bisulcate, coarsely granulate; seeds minute, angulate, brownish-black.
Type locality: South Carolina.
Distribution: Wet, sandy soil, South Carolina to Florida, Arkansas, and Texas.
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bibliographic citation
Paul Carpenter Standley. 1918. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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