EcoFlora - Callisia fragrans

Callisia fragrans (Lindl.) Woodson
Family: Commelinaceae Basketplant University of Florida Herbarium	FNA Resources Robert B. Faden in Flora of North America (vol. 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. Flowering late winter (Feb). Pinelands and hummocks; introduced; Fla.; native, Mexico.
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