View source for Hydrolea spinosa var. spinosa

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|accepted_name=Hydrolea spinosa var. spinosa
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|common_names=Spiny false fiddleleaf
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|name=Hydrolea extra-axillaris
|authority=C. Morren
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|name=H. tetragynia
|authority=Sessé & Mociño
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|name=H. trigyna
|authority=Swartz
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|name=Nama extra-axillaris
|authority=(C. Morren) Kuntze
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|hierarchy=Hydroleaceae;Hydrolea;Hydrolea spinosa;Hydrolea spinosa var. spinosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hydroleaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hydrolea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Hydrolea spinosa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Hydrolea spinosa var. spinosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or small shrubs, erect or decumbent, to 20 dm, unbranched to broadly branched. <b>Stems</b> green, brown, or purple, pubescent or hispid-hirsute, occasionally glabrous, usually densely covered with short, glandular trichomes; thorns 1 or 2 per node or absent, 4–30 × 0.4–2 mm. <b>Leaf</b> blades ovate to lanceolate, occasionally linear, 1–12 × 0.2–3 cm, base attenuate to acute, margins entire or serrulate, surfaces puberulent to hispid-hirsute, with or without glandular trichomes. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, narrow or broadly branching, leafy panicles or clustered at branch tips, 20–100-flowered. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals lanceolate, 6–14 × 1.5–3.5 mm, puberulent to hispid-hirsute, with glandular trichomes; corolla blue, rarely white, petals 5–17 × 2–12 mm; ovary puberulent, upper 1/2 usually glandular-pubescent; styles 2–4, 1.5–13 mm, glandular-pubescent toward bases. <b>Capsules</b> globose to ovoid, 3.5–8 × 3–7 mm, upper 1/2 puberulent or glandular-pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> ovoid to cylindric, symmetric, 0.4–0.7 × 0.2–0.3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 20, 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Wet pond margins, open flood plains.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America (south to Argentina).
|discussion=<p>In the flora area, var. spinosa is known from Cameron County. Specimens vary in pubescence, thorniness, and leaf shape and size.</p>
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name=Hydrolea spinosa var. spinosa
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|synonyms=Hydrolea extra-axillaris;H. tetragynia;H. trigyna;Nama extra-axillaris
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|family=Hydroleaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Wet pond margins, open flood plains.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America (south to Argentina).
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|genus=Hydrolea
|species=Hydrolea spinosa
|variety=Hydrolea spinosa var. spinosa
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