View source for Bergia texana

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|accepted_name=Bergia texana
|accepted_authority=(Hooker) Seubert in W. G. Walpers
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Repert. Bot. Syst.
|place=1: 285. 1842
|year=1842
}}
|common_names=Texas water-fire
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Merimea texana
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
|publication_title=Icon. Pl.
|publication_place=3: plate 278. 1840
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Elatine texana
|authority=(Hooker) Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Elatinaceae;Bergia;Bergia texana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Elatinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bergia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Bergia texana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 349
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> (5–)10–30(–40) cm, often branched from base. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules 2-fid, 1–3 mm, lobes lanceolate, margins laciniate-denticulate; petiole 1–3 mm; blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 1–3 cm × 3–10 mm, base attenuate, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces glandular-puberulent or adaxial glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> (1–)3–5-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> ± erect, (0.5–)3–8 mm, slender, glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals greenish white, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 2–3.5 mm; petals white (sometimes reddish distally), obovate or elliptic, 2.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid to nearly globose, 2–2.5(–3) mm wide. <b>Seeds</b> oblong, 0.4–0.6 mm; pits in 8–9 rows, 15 per row.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer(–early fall).
|habitat=Muddy or sandy shores and flats, emergent shorelines of rivers, lakes, playas, pools, ditches, ponds.
|elevation=0–1600 m.
|distribution=Ark.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Ill.;Kans.;La.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wash.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Nuevo León;Sinaloa;Sonora;Tamaulipas).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Bergia texana
|authority=(Hooker) Seubert in W. G. Walpers
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Elatine texana
|basionyms=Merimea texana
|family=Elatinaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer(–early fall).
|habitat=Muddy or sandy shores and flats, emergent shorelines of rivers, lakes, playas, pools, ditches, ponds.
|elevation=0–1600 m.
|distribution=Ark.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Ill.;Kans.;La.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wash.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Nuevo León;Sinaloa;Sonora;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Repert. Bot. Syst.
|publication year=1842
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_849.xml
|genus=Bergia
|species=Bergia texana
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