Callisia fragrans
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 29: 154. 1942.
Introduced
Basionym: Spironema fragrans Lindley Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 26: plate 47. 1840
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22.
Herbs, perennial, robust, stoloniferous. Stems ascending, to 1 m. Leaves spirally arranged; blade oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 15–30 × 2.5–5cm (distal leaf-blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, panicles to 30 cm or longer. Flowers fragrant, subsessile; petals white, lanceolate, 6 mm; stamens 6, long-exserted, connectives white, broad, flaglike; filaments glabrous; ovary 3-locular, stigma penicillate. Capsules 3-locular.
Phenology: Flowering late winter (Feb).
Habitat: Pinelands and hummocks
Distribution
Introduced; Fla., native, Mexico
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
... more about "Callisia fragrans"
glabrous +
acuminate +
sessile +
oblong;lanceolate-oblong +
succulent +
spathaceous +
absent +
inconspicuous +
persistent +
2-3-valved +
loculicidal +
flaglike +
broad +
sessile +
contracted +
umbel-like +
lidlike +
glabrous +
subsessile +
symmetric +
fragrant +
bisexual +
umbel-like +
reduced +
true +
arranged +
parallel +
superior +
1-seriate +
longer +
developed +
petaloid +
deliquescent +
white +
distinct +
lanceolate +
unequal +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (?) +
equal +
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden +
1942 +
tuberous +
thin +
sepaloid +
distinct +
subequal +
closed +
Introduced +
long-exserted +
absent +
fertile +
equal +
ascending +
simple +
penicillate +
simple +
slender +
Callisia fragrans +
Callisia +
species +
stoloniferous +
perennial +
robust +