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|accepted_name=Rhexia salicifolia
|accepted_authority=Kral & Bostick
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=3: 402, fig. 4. 1969
|year=1969
}}
|common_names=Panhandle or willowleaf meadow beauty
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Melastomataceae;Rhexia;Rhexia salicifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Melastomataceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhexia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rhexia salicifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Caudices </b>not developed; roots often long and rhizomelike, lignescent, tuberiferous. <b>Stems</b> usually several-branched distally, 20–55 cm, faces subequal, angles narrowly winged, internodes and nodes hirsute-villous, hairs gland-tipped. <b>Leaves</b> sessile; blade narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong to narrowly oblanceolate or linear, 1.5–4 cm × 1–5 mm, lateral veins relatively short or, in narrower leaves, absent, margins entire or minutely crenulate, ciliate, with gland-tipped hairs, apex sometimes apiculate, surfaces sparsely to moderately hirsute, hairs gland-tipped. <b>Inflorescences</b> diffuse, not obscured by bracts. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium globose, longer than the constricted neck, (4–)5–7(–8) mm, sparsely hirsute-villous, hairs gland-tipped; calyx lobes narrowly triangular, apices acute; petals spreading, pink to lavender-rose or purple, 1.1–1.2 cm; anthers curved, 4–5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 0.7 mm, surfaces with 3–5 prominent, broad, symmetrical or tortuous longitudinal ridges or contiguous, domelike tubercles in rows. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug(–Sep).
|habitat=Inlet, pond, and lake shores, lime sinkpond margins, interdune swales, depressions, borrow pits, sandhills, longleaf pine savannas, slash pine flats, longleaf pine-turkey oak woods.
|elevation=0–50 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhexia salicifolia
|authority=Kral & Bostick
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Melastomataceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug(–Sep).
|habitat=Inlet, pond, and lake shores, lime sinkpond margins, interdune swales, depressions, borrow pits, sandhills, longleaf pine savannas, slash pine flats, longleaf pine-turkey oak woods.
|elevation=0–50 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1969
|special status=
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|genus=Rhexia
|species=Rhexia salicifolia
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