Murdannia_spirata

<i>Murdannia spirata</i>

Murdannia spirata

Species of flowering plant

Murdannia spirata, common name Asiatic dewflower,[4][5] is a tropical plant species native to China, India, Southeast Asia and the islands of the Pacific.[6] It is now also naturalized in Florida, first collected there from the wild in 1965.[7] In Asia, it is found in forests and in wet wastelands, often along streams. In Florida, it has been collected from palm hummocks and marshes in and just north of the Everglades.

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Murdannia spirata is a perennial herb with narrowly ovate to lanceolate clasping leaves and pale blue flowers.[8][9]

References

  1. [1]
    Mani, S. (2011). "Murdannia spirata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T177118A7369665. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  2. [2]
    Tropicos
  3. [3]
    The Plant List
  4. [4]
    Flora Caroliniana, University of South Carolina
  5. [5]
    Flowers of India
  6. [6]
    Flora of China, v 24 p 29.
  7. [7]
    Flora of North America v 22
  8. [8]
    Brückner, Gerhard., in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Die naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien, zweite Auflage. 15a: 173. 1930.
  9. [9]
    Linnaeus, Carl von. Mantissa Plantarum 2: 176–177. 1771.


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