Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Oldenlandia callitrichoides Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 506
1863.
Prostrate perennial, forming dense mats, the branches filiform, glabrous, the internodes longer than the leaves; stipules minute, cuspidate; petioles slender, often as long as the blades; leaf-blades suborbicular or ovate-orbicular, 1.5-3.5 mm. long and broad, obtuse or broadly rounded at the apex, usually truncate at the base and abruptly short-decurrent, thin, brightgreen, sparsely white-hirsutulous on the upper surface or glabrate, glabrous beneath, the lateral veins obsolete, the costa obscure; flowers axillary, solitary, the pedicels slender-filiform, 5-25 mm. long, often flexuous; hypanthium less than 1 mm. long, the calyx-lobes ovate-triangular, obtuse or acutish, slightly separated in fruit, ciliolate; corolla salverform, white, about 2 mm. long, much exceeding the calyx-lobes; stamens usually exserted; capsule narrowly turbinate, 2.5-3 mm. long, 1 mm. broad at the apex, green, shallowly bisulcate, angulate, minutely
scaberulous or glabrate; seeds minute, subangulate, blackish-brown, reticulate.
Type locality: Eastern Cuba.
Distribution: In moist soil, Bahamas, Cuba, and Guadeloupe; Yucatan.
- bibliographic citation
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1918. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
