Dorstenia contrajerva
Sp. Pl. 1: 121. 1753.
Herbs, to 4.5 dm. Stems covered with persistent petiole bases. Leaves: stipules persistent; petiole 8-25 cm. Leaf-blade oblong-ovate, deltate-ovate, or orbiculate, entire or deeply pinnately lobed, 6-20 × 7-22 cm, pubescent. Inflorescences: peduncle 7-25 cm; receptacle flat, curved, or undulate, quadrangular or lobed, to 3.5 cm square. Drupes somewhat globose. Seeds yellowish, explosively expelled. 2n = 30.
Phenology: Flowering all year.
Habitat: Moist, disturbed sites
Elevation: 0-20 m
Distribution
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Introduced; Fla., s Mexico, Central America, n South America
Discussion
Dorstenia contrajerva is a weed in greenhouses and nurseries; it rarely occurs in the wild in North America. It is sometimes cultivated as a house plant.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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palmate +
pinnate +
connate +
minute +
absent +
globose +
unisexual +
small +
multiple +
Present +
axillary +
true +
pubescent +
7cm;22cm +
simple +
alternate +
palmate +
inferior +
grooved +
persistent +
1-2-carpellate +
Sp. Pl. +
1753 +
long-pedunculate +
curved +
common +
enlarged +
fleshy +
milky +
yellowish +
straight +
inflexed +
equal +
aerial +
not evident +
fleshy +
1;2 +
persistent +
free +
absent +
2-branched +
cup-shaped +
Dorstenia contrajerva +
Dorstenia +
species +
flattened +
rhizomatous +
perennial +