Callisia fragrans

(Lindley) Woodson

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

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Introduced; Fla., native, Mexico

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Callisia fragrans"
acuminate +
Robert B. Faden +
(Lindley) Woodson +
Spironema fragrans +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
oblong;lanceolate-oblong +
succulent +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
inconspicuous +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
umbel-like +
Fla. +, native +  and Mexico +
fragrant +
Pinelands and hummocks +
thyrsiform +  and cymose +
axillary +  and terminal +
cauline +  and basal +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
distinct +
lanceolate +
unequal +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (?) +
Flowering late winter (Feb). +
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden +
distinct +
subequal +
Introduced +
long-exserted +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
penicillate +
not +  and enlarged +
slender +
Cuthbertia +, Leiandra +, Phyodina +  and Tradescantella +
Callisia fragrans +
Callisia +
species +