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Family: Campanulaceae
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Plants perennial. Stems decumbent, 15-25 cm long, pubescent with short white hairs. Leaves cauline; petioles 3-12 mm; blades broadly elliptic, covered with short whitish hairs, the tip acute, the base acute to attenuate, the margins mostly entire or sinuate. Flowers in a terminal raceme; pedicels ca. 10 mm; hypanthium ca 0.5 mm; nectar spur absent; calyx lobes 2.5-3 mm, ascending; corollas blue or white, the tube ca. 4.5 mm, dorsally slit, without lateral “windows” near the base; filament tube 4-4.5 mm, anther tube 1.5 mm, the lower two anthers with stiff bristles at tips. Fruit about ½ inferior, generally reflexed at maturity. Seeds ellipsoid, smooth. Editor: I. Andrade-Muñoz 2024 Habitat: Unknown Distribution: Chiapas, known only from type locality. McVaugh, R. (1940). A Key to the North American Species of Lobelia (Sect. Hemipogon). The American Midland Naturalist, 24(3), 681–702. https://doi.org/10.2307/2420867
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