View source for Metastelma blodgettii

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|accepted_name=Metastelma blodgettii
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=12: 73. 1876
|year=1876
|other_info_on_pub=(as blodgetti)
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cynanchum blodgettii
|authority=(A. Gray) Shinners
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Metastelma;Metastelma blodgettii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Metastelma]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Metastelma blodgettii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>herbaceous, glabrate, sparsely puberulent in 1 line on new growth. <b>Leaves</b>: 1 stipular colleter on each side of petiole; petiole 1.5–3 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent; blade linear-lanceolate, 10–35 × 3–6 mm, chartaceous, with single vein or obscurely pinnate, base rounded, laminar colleters absent, margins sometimes revolute on drying, apex acute to attenuate, mucronulate, surfaces glabrous, margins sometimes remotely puberulent. <b>Inflorescences</b> umbelliform, 3–5-flowered; peduncle 0.5–1.5 mm, puberulent. <b>Pedi</b>cels 1.5–2 mm, sparsely puberulent to glabrate. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes ovate, apices obtuse to acute, 0.5–1 mm, glabrous, margins scarious, colleters apparently absent; corolla green abaxially, white adaxially, urceolate, tube 1 mm, lobes erect with spreading tips, opening obscured by hairs, lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially densely villous marginally and apically with erect, opaque, flattened hairs, densely hispid centrally with downward-pointing acicular translucent hairs; corona segments united to base of column, laminar, subulate, 1–1.5 mm, slightly longer than gynostegium; gynostegium sessile; style apex convex. <b>Follicles</b> dark brown, 4–5 × 0.4–0.7 cm, apically acuminate, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> 10–16, brown, flat to somewhat navicular, 5–6 × 2–3 mm, broadly winged, smooth; coma white, 2–2.5 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering nearly year-round; fruiting Mar–May, Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Limestone, pine rocklands, pine-palmetto scrub.
|elevation=0 m.
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba).
|discussion=<p>In Florida Metastelma blodgettii is restricted to Miami-Dade County and Monroe County keys.</p>
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name=Metastelma blodgettii
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cynanchum blodgettii
|basionyms=
|family=Apocynaceae
|phenology=Flowering nearly year-round; fruiting Mar–May, Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Limestone, pine rocklands, pine-palmetto scrub.
|elevation=0 m.
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba).
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1876
|special status=Conservation concern
|source xml=
|genus=Metastelma
|species=Metastelma blodgettii
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