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Callisia fragrans (Lindl.) Woodson
FRAGRANT INCH PLANT
Spironema fragrans Lindl; Basketplant

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5. Callisia fragrans (Lindley) Woodson, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 29: 154. 1942.

Spironema fragrans Lindley, Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26: plate 47. 1840

Herbs, perennial, robust, stoloniferous. Stems ascending, to 1 m. Leaves spirally arranged; blade oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 15--30 ´ 2.5--5cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, panicles to 30 cm or longer. Flowers fragrant, subsessile; petals white, lanceolate, 6 mm; stamens 6, long-exserted, connectives white, broad, flaglike; filaments glabrous; ovary 3-locular, stigma penicillate. Capsules 3-locular.

Flowering late winter (Feb). Pinelands and hummocks; introduced; Fla.; native, Mexico.

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