Mecardonia procumbens

(Miller) Small

Fl. S.E. U.S., 1065, 1338. 1903.

Common names: Baby jump-up
Basionym: Erinus procumbens Miller Gard. Dict. ed. 8, Erinus no. 6. 1768
Synonyms: Bacopa procumbens (Miller) Greenman Mecardonia tenuis Small
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 275. Mentioned on page 273.

Stems spreading, prostrate, or ascending, 10–60 cm, glandular. Leaves glandular; blade 10–25 × 6–12 mm, 4–8 times bracts, margins sharply serrate. Pedicels ascending, 7–25 mm. Flowers: calyx lobes equal; corolla lemon yellow with reddish veins in throat, abaxial lip prominent, adaxial lobes connate nearly to apices; stamens medially adnate to corolla. Capsules 4–5 mm. Seeds 60–80, brown, radial walls of reticulum mamillate. 2n = 22, 44.


Phenology: Flowering May–Oct.
Habitat: Wetlands, edges of streams, springs and seeps, deserts in upland washes and canyons with moisture.
Elevation: 90–1600 m.

Distribution

Ala., Ariz., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.Mex., Tex., Mexico, Central America, in Asia (India), in Asia (Sri Lanka), Africa (Cameroon), Africa (Sierra Leone), Australia

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Mecardonia procumbens"
projecting +  and spreading +
Adjoa Richardson Ahedor +
(Miller) Small +
alternate +, opposite +, whorled +, helical +  and subopposite +
Erinus procumbens +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
4-8 times bracts +
not leathery +  and not fleshy +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
campanulate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
woody +  and herbaceous +
Baby jump-up +
lemon yellow +
campanulate +
Ala. +, Ariz. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, La. +, Miss. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +, Mexico +, Central America +, in Asia (India) +, in Asia (Sri Lanka) +, Africa (Cameroon) +, Africa (Sierra Leone) +  and Australia +
drupe-like +
90–1600 m. +
curved +  and straight +
1 +  and 4 +
loculicidal +  and septicidal +
Wetlands, edges of streams, springs and seeps, deserts in upland washes and canyons with moisture. +
persistent +  and deciduous +
entire +  and subentire toothed or lobed +
axile +  and parietal +
basal +, apical +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
campylotropous +, hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
5 +  and 4 +
Flowering May–Oct. +
Fl. S.E. U.S., +
minute +
climbing +  and scrambling +
sprawling +, creeping +  and prostrate +
ascending;prostrate;ascending;prostrate;spreading +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br />) +
Bacopa procumbens +  and Mecardonia tenuis +
Mecardonia procumbens +
Mecardonia +
species +
gibbous +  and not spurred +