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Status: | Introduced |
Description: |
Creeping, sprawling herb, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 2.5 - 10 cm long, sessile, distichous, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate; base asymmetric, rounded to cordate. Cymes in pairs. Flowers 7-14 mm in diameter, white. |
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Notes: | Frequently cultivated and occasionally escaping in high rainfall areas. |
Derivation of specific name: | pellucida: through which light passes, transparent |
Habitat: | In shady disturbed ground. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Native to Mexico. |
National distribution: | E |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Sunday 6 June 2010 |
Literature: |
Walters, S.M. et al. (eds) (1984). The European Garden Flora. Vol. II. Monocotyledons (Part II). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Page 28. |
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