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Oldenlandia fasciculata

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Oldenlandia fasciculata (Bertol.) Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 1106
1903.
Hedyotis glomerata T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 2: 42, in part. 1841. Not. H. glomerata Ell. 1816. Hedyotis fasciculata Bertol. Mem. Accad. Bologna 2: 306. 1850.
Oldenlandia glomerata A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. I 2 : 27, in part. 1884. Not O. glomerata Michx. 1803. Oldenlandia littoralis C. Mohr, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 27. 1897.
Annual, erect or decumbent, the stems much or sparsely branched, 1-6 dm. long, the branches slender, nearly terete, glabrous or slightly pubescent at the nodes, the internodes usually longer than the leaves; stipules 2-3 mm. long, the lobes usually long-bicuspid ate, sometimes with numerous lobes or teeth, often white-hirsutulous; leaves sessile, the blades usually ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 8-25 mm. long, 2.5-6 mm. wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, mucronulate, acute or obtuse at the base, yellowish-green, scaberulous on the margins and sometimes on the costa, the lateral veins usually obsolete; flowers solitary or densely clustered in the axils, sessile or nearly so; hypanthium less than 1 mm. long, glabrous, the calyxlobes usually shorter, ovate-deltoid or oblong-ovate, acute, mucronate, scaberulo-ciliolate, approximate in fruit; corolla rotate, white, much shorter than the calyx-lobes; capsule subglobose, 2 mm. long, bisulcate, smooth, glabrous; seeds minute, angulate.
Type locality: Alabama.
Distribution: In wet sandy soil, Florida to Mississippi; Porto Rico.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1918. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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