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|accepted_name=Glossostigma
|accepted_authority=Wight & Arnott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur.
|place=18: 355. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|common_names=Mud mat
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Phrymaceae;Glossostigma
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Phrymaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Glossostigma]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek glossa, tongue, and stigma, spot, alluding to ligulate stigma
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 365, 366, 370
|treatment_page=page 369
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, aquatic, mat-forming; stolons horizontal. <b>Stems</b> functionally stolons. <b>Leaves</b> on stolons, opposite; petiole absent [present]; blade fleshy, margins entire, obscurely uninerved (midvein). <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, flowers solitary; bracts absent. <b>Pedicels</b> absent or present, longer or shorter than calyces; bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b> [monomorphic] dimorphic (perianth), erect or sessile; sepals 3[4], calyx radially or bilaterally symmetric, campanulate or urceolate, lobes oblong, adaxial lobe longer; petals 0 or [3–]5, corolla fugacious, white [suffused with blue, pink, or purple], bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate, short-funnelform, abaxial lobes 3, adaxial 2, smaller; stamens 2[4], equal [didynamous], filaments glabrous; staminode 0; ovary 2-locular, placentation axile; stigma broad, flaplike, or relatively small. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 12–73[100], brown, flattened, wings absent. <b>x</b> = 5.</span><!--

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|distribution=Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 7 or 8 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Chromosome counts from New Zealand (E. J. Beuzenberg and J. B. Hair 1983; P. J. de Lange et al. 2004) indicate a base number of x = 5 for <i>Glossostigma</i>. An anomalous count (2n = 32) has been reported for G. diandrum (Linnaeus) Kuntze from Bangladesh (see M. O. Rahman 2006).</p>
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name=Glossostigma
|author=Donald H. Les;Robert S. Capers
|authority=Wight & Arnott
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
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|family=Phrymaceae
|distribution=Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur.
|publication year=1836
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Glossostigma
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