Comprehensive Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por North American Flora
Hydrocotyle pygmaea C. Wright; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci Habana6:97. 1869.
Plants glabrous; stems filiform; leaves thin, orbicular-peltate, excluding the petioles 3-6 mm. long, 3-7 mm. broad, shallowly 5-7-lobed; petioles filiform, 3-15 mm. long; inflorescence a simple umbel; peduncles about equaling the leaves, 8-15 mm. long; involucre inconspicuous; umbels 1-3-flowered, the flowers greenish, sessile to subsessile; fruit ellipsoid in general outline, 1-1.5 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, the dorsal surface somewhat expanded, narrowly oblong in cross section, with 2 distinct lateral ribs, the commissural surface plane; oil-bearing cells present.
Type locality: "A la orilla de las lagunas circa del potrero San Julian, Nueva Filipina." Cuba, Wright 3571.
Distribution: Cuba {BrMon 7181, Shafer 10,789).
- citação bibliográfica
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
