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Mesosphaerum

P.Browne (1756)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Mesosphaerum

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Annual or short-lived perennial herbs.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Margins toothed. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in opposite several to many-flowered cincinnate, pendunculate cymes arranged in spike-like racemes or panicles; bracts leafy below, becoming smaller towards the apex. Calyx actinomorphic, ribbed, funnelform, subequally 5-toothed; the tube somewhat accrescent in fruit. Corolla small, 5-lobed, +/- 2-lipped; lowest lobe saccate. Stamens 4, declinate. Ovary superior.

Fruit: Fruit a lobed structure that divides into two flattened 'seeds' (mericarps).

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Civ. Nat. Hist. Jamaica: 257 (1756)

Occurrences

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