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|accepted_name=Murdannia
|accepted_authority=Royle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Illustrations of the Botany... of the Himalayan Mountains...
|place=403, plate 95, fig. 3. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Murdannia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Commelinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Murdannia]]</div></div>
|etymology=In honor of Murdan Aly, plant collector and keeper of the herbarium at Saharunpore
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=page 191
|treatment_page=page 190
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial. <b>Roots</b> thin [tuberous]. <b>Leaves</b>: blade sessile. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, terminal and axillary, or all axillary, thyrses to fascicles of 1-flowered cymes; spathaceous bracts absent; bracteoles persistent or caducous. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or bisexual and staminate, radially or bilaterally symmetric; pedicels well developed; sepals distinct, subequal; petals distinct, white to purple or violet, rarely yellow, subequal, not clawed; stamens 2–3 fertile and antisepalous, 3–4 staminodial and antipetalous (if 4, then 1 antisepalous); filaments glabrous or bearded; antherodes usually 3-lobed; ovary 3-locular, ovules 1–many per locule, 1[–2]-seriate. <b>Capsules</b> 3-valved, 3-locular. <b>Seeds</b> 1–many per locule, 1[–2]-seriate; hilum punctiform to linear; embryotega abaxial to semilateral. <b>x</b> = 6, 7, 9, 10, 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=pantropical and warm temperate.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 50 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=faden1978a
|text=Faden, R. B. 1978. Review of the lectotypification of Aneilema R. Br. (Commelinaceae). Taxon 27: 289--298.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=shinners1962c
|text=Shinners, L. H. 1962. Aneilema (Commelinaceae) in the United States. Sida 1: 100--101.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers in 1-flowered cymes; cymes solitary or in fascicles; capsules (4–)5–9 mm
|[[Murdannia keisak|Murdannia keisak]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers in several-flowered cymes; cymes solitary or thyrses; capsules 2.5–5 mm.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Bracteoles caducous; capsules with 2 seeds per locule; 2 stamens fertile, 4 staminodial
|[[Murdannia nudiflora|Murdannia nudiflora]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Bracteoles persistent; capsules with 3–7 seeds per locule; 3 stamens fertile, 3 staminodial
|[[Murdannia spirata|Murdannia spirata]]
|}
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name=Murdannia
|authority=Royle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Commelinaceae
|distribution=pantropical and warm temperate.
|introduced=true
|reference=faden1978a;shinners1962c
|publication title=Illustrations of the Botany... of the Himalayan Mountains...
|publication year=1840
|special status=
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|genus=Murdannia
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