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Microtea debilis Sw. Prodr. 53. 17SS
Schollera debilis Rohr. Skr. Nat.-Selsk. Kjob. 2>: 210. 1792.
A glabrous, prostrate or ascending, annual herb; basal leaves spatulate, elliptic-spatulate, or spatulate-obovate, 5-9 cm. long, 1.3—3 cm. broad, the stem-leaves lanceolate to ovate, spatulate, or obovate, 1.5-7 cm. long, 0.5-3 cm. broad, acute at the apex, tapering at the base; inflorescence racemose; pedicels short; sepals 5, elliptic, 0.5-0.6 mm. long, about 0.3 mm. broad, acutish, greenishwhite ; stamens 5; filaments subulate-linear, 0.4 mm. long; anthers minute; ovary subglobose, echinate, 0.5 mm. long; stigmas 2, ovate-triangular or shorttriangular-lanceolate, 0.2 mm. long; fruit broadly subglobose or globose-ellipsoid, greenish, 1.1-1.2 mm. in diameter, covered with a honeycomb-like network uniting the spine-like tubercles; seed 0.9-1 mm. wide, black.
Type locality: St. Kilts.
Distribution: West Indies; Central and South America.
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Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg. 1932. CHENOPODIALES. North American flora. vol 21(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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