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|accepted_name=Callisia cordifolia
|accepted_authority=(Swartz) E. S. Anderson & Woodson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. Arnold Arbor.
|place=9: 117. 1935
|year=1935
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Tradescantia cordifolia
|authority=Swartz
|publication_title=Prodr.,
|publication_place=57. 1788
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Leiandra cordifolia
|authority=(Swartz) Rafinesque
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phyodina cordifolia
|authority=(Swartz) Rohweder
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tradescantella floridana
|authority=(S. Watson) Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tradescantia floridana
|authority=S. Watson
}}
|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Callisia;Callisia cordifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Commelinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Callisia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Callisia cordifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, mat-forming. <b>Leaves</b> 2-ranked, gradually reduced toward end of flowering shoot; blade lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic to ovate, 1–3 × 0.5–1.4 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins scabrous, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary from distal leaves, pedunculate, composed of pairs of sessile cymes; bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, 2–6 mm. <b>Flowers</b> odorless, 4–5 mm wide, pedicillate; sepals distinct, maroon, 2–3 mm; petals white, ovate, 2.5 mm; stamens 6, nearly equal or antipetalous stamens slightly longer than antsepalous; filaments glabrous; ovary 3-locular. <b>Capsules</b> 3-locular. <b>Seeds</b> 0.6–0.7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14 (as floridana).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Moist, usually shady places with calcareous soil, e.g., hummocks, fern grottoes, shell middens
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Mexico;West Indies;n South America.
|discussion=<p>The single Georgia record, a specimen labeled Rome, Floyd County (Babcock s.n., MO), is considered credible by Dr. Nancy Coile.</p>
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name=Callisia cordifolia
|author=
|authority=(Swartz) E. S. Anderson & Woodson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Leiandra cordifolia;Phyodina cordifolia;Tradescantella floridana;Tradescantia floridana
|basionyms=Tradescantia cordifolia
|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Moist, usually shady places with calcareous soil, e.g., hummocks, fern grottoes, shell middens
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Mexico;West Indies;n South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. Arnold Arbor.
|publication year=1935
|special status=
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|genus=Callisia
|species=Callisia cordifolia
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