Derivation of specific name
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nudicaulis: with a naked or leafless stem.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Mollugo nudicaulis Lam. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=122880
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Description
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Annual herb, up to c. 30 cm tall. Leaves numerous, in a basal rosette, oblanceolate to obovate, somewhat fleshy. Flowers 3-4 mm in diameter, terminal on leafless, forked branches, greenish-white.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Mollugo nudicaulis Lam. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=122880
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- Mark Hyde
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- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Pantropical
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Mollugo nudicaulis Lam. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=122880
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- Mark Hyde
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Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Mollugo nudicaulis Lam. Encyc. 4: 234. 1796
Pharnaccum spathulalum Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ 568. 1797.
Pharnaceum bellidifolium Poir. in Lam. Encyc. S: 262. 1804.
Mollugo bellidifolia Seringe. in DC. Prodr. 1: 391. 1824.
Lampetia nudicaulis Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 34. 1837.
Mollugo nudicaulis bellidifolia Rohrb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 14=: 244. 1872.
Mollugo nudicaulis navassensis Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. 22A": 14. 1929.
A glabrous annual or occasionally a perennial, 8-30 cm. high, with a taproot; leaves in a basal rosette, erect-spreading, the blades obovate or spatulate, 1.5-6 cm. long, 5-16 mm. broad, rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base into the petiole, membranous; cymes longpeduncled, the peduncles grooved; bracts small, 0.S-1 mm. long; flowers greenish-white or pale-salmon-colored; sepals elliptic to oval, 2 mm. long, 0.8-1 mm. broad; stamens 4 or 5; capsule ellipsoid, 2-2.2 mm. long, 1.2-1.5 mm. in diameter; seeds reniform, 0.4-0.5 mm. long, minutely granulate, black. Type locality': Ceylon.
Distribution: Cuba; Jamaica; Hispaniola: Porto Rico; St. Thomas; Buck Island; St. Croix; Virgin Gorda; St. Lucia; Guadeloupe?; also in South America, tropical Africa, India, and New Caledonia.
- bibliographic citation
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg. 1932. CHENOPODIALES. North American flora. vol 21(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Paramollugo nudicaulis: Brief Summary
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Paramollugo nudicaulis, also known by its common name smooth carpetweed, is a species from the genus Paramollugo.
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