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| Distribution | Native to the Neotropics, widely naturalized in the Pacific Basin.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
O`ahu, Moloka`i, Hawai`i.
. First collected 1984, K. Nagata 2977, HLA..
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Habit
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Decumbent perennial herbs, flowering shoots ascending; stems rooting at lower nodes, up to 7 dm long, usually puberulent.
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Leaves
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Leaves thin, ovate to lanceolate, 2-8 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, glabrous to sparsely pilose, apex acute to short acuminate, base rounded to broadly cuneate, petioles up to 2 cm long.
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Flowers
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Spikes 3-10 cm long, bracts ovate to broadly ovate, 10-25 mm long, sparsely strigose, puberulent, and long ciliate; corolla white or bluish lavender, 1.2-1.5 cm long.
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Fruit
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Capsules oblong ellipsoid, 0.6-0.7 cm long, puberulent.
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Seeds
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Seeds brown, orbicular, compressed, ca. 1.5 mm in diameter.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 34.
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