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|accepted_name=Callisia ornata
|accepted_authority=(Small) G. C. Tucker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum
|place=70:118. 1989
|year=1989
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cuthbertia ornata
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|publication_title=Man. S.E. Fl.,
|publication_place=259. 1933
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tradescantia rosea var. ornata
|authority=(Small) E. S. Anderson & Woodson
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Callisia;Callisia ornata
|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 ornata]]</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, not or only scarcely cespitose, erect. <b>Roots</b> persistently densely woolly. <b>Stems</b> 20–50 cm. <b>Leaves</b> strongly ascending; basal leaf sheaths glabrous to puberulent; blade linear, (2–)10–25 × 0.1–0.4 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened). <b>Inflorescences</b>: bracts not distinct from bracteoles, usually minute, 1–3(–7) mm, scarious (rarely somewhat herbaceous). <b>Flowers</b> pedicellate; pedicels 1–1.5 cm; petals pink to rose, 9–13 mm; stamens 6; filaments bearded; ovary 3-locular. <b>Capsules</b> 3-locular, 3–5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 1.5–2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring, fall.
|habitat=Coastal strand
|distribution=Oak;pine;and palmetto woods and scrub;occasionally fields or roadsides;usually in sandy soil;Fla.
|discussion=<p>A white-flowered form has been described from central Florida as <i>Callisia ornata</i> forma leucantha Lakela (O. Lakela 1972), but such color forms are hardly worth taxonomic recognition.</p>
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name=Callisia ornata
|authority=(Small) G. C. Tucker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Tradescantia rosea var. ornata
|basionyms=Cuthbertia ornata
|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring, fall.
|habitat=Coastal strand
|distribution=Oak;pine;and palmetto woods and scrub;occasionally fields or roadsides;usually in sandy soil;Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum
|publication year=1989
|special status=
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|genus=Callisia
|species=Callisia ornata
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