Acleisanthes obtusa (Choisy) Standl.

국표에 없다.

• Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 371 (1909)

• This name is reported by Caryophyllales as an accepted name in the genus Acleisanthes (family Nyctaginaceae).

  The record derives from WCSP (in review) which reports it as an accepted name

General Information

Plants herbaceous, often woody at base, overall pubescence of white, capitate hairs 0.1-0.2 mm. Stems prostrate or spreading, much branched, to more than 100 cm, hirtellous to glabrate. Leaves grayish green, sessile or petiolate, those of pair slightly unequal; petiole to 25 mm, hirtellous to glabrate; blade deltate to deltate-ovate, 2-30(-45) × 2-35(-50) mm, base truncate to subcordate or rounded and short decurrent, margins flat or slightly undulate, apex acute to broadly rounded and often apiculate, puberulent to glabrate. Inflorescences solitary flowers or 2-5-flowered cymes, sessile or with pedicel to 5 mm; bracts linear-subulate, 1-7 mm, puberulent, usually sparsely so. Flowers: chasmogamous perianth 2.5-5.5 cm, sparsely puberulent, tube 1-2 mm diam., limbs 13-25 mm diam., stamens 5; cleistogamous perianth 3-12 mm, puberulent, stamens 5. Fruits 5-ribbed with pair of parallel grooves between ribs, each rib and pair of grooves ending at summit in inconspicuous, glandless knob, oblong, truncate at both ends, often constricted ca. 1 mm above base and below apex, 5-8 mm, hirtellous to sparsely puberulent with capitate hairs and with few, scattered, moniliform hairs 0.2-0.3 mm.

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Acleisanthes obtusa (Choisy) Standl. (worldfloraonline.org)

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