Difference between revisions of "Plectritis congesta"
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==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
+ | General: Annual herbs, the stem usually simple, 1-6 dm. tall, the herbage nearly glabrous throughout. | ||
+ | Leaves: Leaves opposite, distant, entire, 1-6 cm. long and 3-22 mm. wide, the lowermost ones spatulate or obovate and short-petiolate, the others oblong to elliptic and sessile. | ||
+ | Flowers: Inflorescence congested, sub-capitate; calyx obsolete; corolla united, two-lipped, bright pink to white, 2-8 mm. long, with a well-developed, thick spur; stamens 3; ovary inferior, apparently 1-celled, since two of the 3 cells are sterile. | ||
+ | Fruit: Fruit a dry carpel, 2-4 mm. long, the convex side keeled, with or without lateral wings. | ||
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==Bloom Period== | ==Bloom Period== | ||
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== |
Revision as of 07:14, 8 May 2012
common names;Rosy plectritis, Sea blush, Shortspur seablush
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General: Annual herbs, the stem usually simple, 1-6 dm. tall, the herbage nearly glabrous throughout. Leaves: Leaves opposite, distant, entire, 1-6 cm. long and 3-22 mm. wide, the lowermost ones spatulate or obovate and short-petiolate, the others oblong to elliptic and sessile. Flowers: Inflorescence congested, sub-capitate; calyx obsolete; corolla united, two-lipped, bright pink to white, 2-8 mm. long, with a well-developed, thick spur; stamens 3; ovary inferior, apparently 1-celled, since two of the 3 cells are sterile. Fruit: Fruit a dry carpel, 2-4 mm. long, the convex side keeled, with or without lateral wings.