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|accepted_name=Heimia
|accepted_authority=Link
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt.
|place=2: 3. 1822
|year=1822
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Lythraceae;Heimia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lythraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Heimia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Ernst Ludwig Heim, 1747–1834, medical doctor in Berlin renowned for establishing sanitary health practices and said to have introduced Alexander von Humboldt to botany
|volume=Volume 10
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="shrub growth form or habitat;shrub some measurement;shrub pubescence;subshrub growth form or habitat;subshrub some measurement;subshrub pubescence"><b>Shrubs </b>or subshrubs, terrestrial, 5–30 dm, glabrous throughout.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture"><b>Stems </b>erect, sparsely branched.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>opposite to subopposite;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf arrangement;leaf architecture;leaf architecture">sessile or subsessile [petiolate];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;base shape">blade lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, base narrowly attenuate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="inflorescence development;inflorescence position;raceme architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>indeterminate, axillary, leafy racemes.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower architecture;flower architecture;flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>sessile or subsessile, actinomorphic, monostylous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="floral-tube position;floral-tube shape;floral-tube shape;floral-tube shape">floral-tube perigynous, campanulate to turbinate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="epicalyx segment variability;epicalyx segment length or size">epicalyx segments equal to or longer than sepals;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal quantity">sepals (5 or) 6, 1/3–1/2 floral-tube length;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="petal duration;petal quantity;petal coloration">petals caducous, (5 or) 6, bright-yellow;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="nectary presence">nectary absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="stamen atypical quantity;stamen quantity">stamens (10 or) 12 (–24);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="ovary architecture or structure in adjective form">ovary (3 or) 4 (–6) -locular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="placenta shape">placenta globose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="style size">style slender;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="stigma architecture or shape">stigma capitate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="wall width;wall condition or texture;wall dehiscence"><b>Fruits </b>capsules, walls thin and dry, dehiscence loculicidal.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="seed quantity;seed shape;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>200+, subpyramidal and elongate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="cotyledon shape">cotyledons ± complanate.</span><!--

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|distribution=Texas;Mexico;South America;in West Indies;Central America
|discussion=<p>Species 1–3 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Heimia
|author=Shirley A. Graham
|authority=Link
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Lythraceae
|distribution=Texas;Mexico;South America;in West Indies;Central America
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt.
|publication year=1822
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Heimia
|base shape=attenuate
|blade shape=lanceolate;linear-lanceolate
|cotyledon shape=complanate
|epicalyx segment length or size=longer
|epicalyx segment variability=equal
|floral-tube position=perigynous
|floral-tube shape=campanulate;turbinate
|flower architecture=actinomorphic;subsessile;sessile
|inflorescence development=indeterminate
|inflorescence position=axillary
|leaf architecture=subsessile;sessile
|leaf arrangement=opposite;subopposite
|nectary presence=absent
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=4(-6)-locular
|petal coloration=bright-yellow
|petal duration=caducous
|petal quantity=6
|placenta shape=globose
|raceme architecture=leafy
|seed shape=elongate;subpyramidal
|sepal quantity=1/3;1/2
|shrub growth form or habitat=terrestrial
|shrub pubescence=glabrous
|shrub some measurement=5dm;30dm
|stamen atypical quantity=12;24
|stamen quantity=12
|stem architecture=branched
|stem orientation=erect
|stigma architecture or shape=capitate
|style size=slender
|subshrub growth form or habitat=terrestrial
|subshrub pubescence=glabrous
|subshrub some measurement=5dm;30dm
|wall condition or texture=dry
|wall dehiscence=loculicidal
|wall width=thin
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