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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rhexia ventricosa
|accepted_authority=Fernald & Griscom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=37: 172, plate 346, figs. 1–4. 1935
|year=1935
}}
|common_names=Swollen meadow beauty
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhexia mariana var. ventricosa
|authority=(Fernald & Griscom) Kral & Bostick
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Melastomataceae;Rhexia;Rhexia ventricosa
|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 ventricosa]]</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, non-tuberiferous. <b>Stems</b> unbranched or few- to several-branched distally, 25–80 cm, faces subequal, angles sharp, without wings or very narrowly winged, internodes and nodes hirsute-villous, hairs gland-tipped. <b>Leaves</b> sessile, subsessile, or petiole 0.5–1.5 mm; blade broadly to narrowly elliptic to ovate-elliptic or lanceolate, 2–6 cm × 10–20 mm, margins serrate to serrulate, surfaces loosely strigose to strigose-hirsute or villous. <b>Inflorescences</b> diffuse, not obscured by bracts. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium ovoid to subglobose, about as long as the constricted neck, 6–10 mm, hirsute-villous, glabrous, or glabrate, hairs gland-tipped; calyx lobes narrowly triangular, apices acute to acuminate, narrowed to linear-oblong extensions; petals spreading, bright lavender-rose,1.2–1.5 cm; anthers curved, 5–8 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 0.5–0.7 mm, surfaces with papillae in concentric rows. <b>2n</b> = 44.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Pine flatwoods and savannas, clearings in cypress-hardwood swamps, ditches, wet roadsides.
|elevation=0–50 m.
|distribution=Del.;Md.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhexia ventricosa
|authority=Fernald & Griscom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Rhexia mariana var. ventricosa
|basionyms=
|family=Melastomataceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Pine flatwoods and savannas, clearings in cypress-hardwood swamps, ditches, wet roadsides.
|elevation=0–50 m.
|distribution=Del.;Md.;N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1935
|special status=
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|genus=Rhexia
|species=Rhexia ventricosa
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