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Mecardonia procumbens Small  
Family: Plantaginaceae
[Bacopa procumbens Greenm., moreBacopa procumbens var. schottii Greenm., Herpestis caprarioides Kunth, Herpestis chamaedryoides Kunth, Herpestis colubrina Kunth, Herpestis divaricata J. A. Schmidt, Herpestis vandellioides Kunth, Mecardonia dianthera (Sw.) Pennell, Mecardonia montevidensis (Spreng.) Pennell, Mecardonia vandellioides auct. non (Kunth) Pennell, Pagesia vandellioides (Kunth) Pennell]
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The Flora of Barro Colorado Island by Thomas Croat
Glabrous, ephemeral herb, creeping or ascending, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes; branches mostly from the base, to 15 cm long, slender, flexuous; stems sometimes strongly angled, sometimes glandular, the glands dark brown, multicellular, peltate; roots mostly short and fibrous. Petioles very short or indistinct; blades ovate, obtuse at apex, cuneate at base, mostly 10-15 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, glandular-punctate on lower surface, the margins crenate in distal two-thirds of blade; major lateral veins usually 2 or 3 per side. Flowers solitary, seldom geminate, at first terminal, soon axillary, ca 8 mm long; pedicels slender, ca 3 mm long in flower, longer in fruit, the bracts basal, 2-4 mm long, linear, mostly entire; sepals free, the outer 3 ovate, 7 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, accrescent in fruit (becoming 9 mm long and 5 mm wide), acute at apex, obtuse or rounded at base, mostly eglandular, the inner 2 linear, slightly shorter than the outer ones; corolla tubular, exserted, yellow with purple lines, 5-8 mm long, bilabiate, the lobes rounded, sometimes irregularly crenulate, the upper lip reflexed, emarginate, the lower lip 3-lobed, scarcely reflexed, the throat bearded below the upper lip with clavate, unicellular trichomes; stamens 4, ca 3.5 mm long, held against one side of the tube beneath upper lip (a rudimentary staminodium sometimes present); filaments glabrous, inserted at unequal heights in the basal half of the tube, free ca 2 mm; thecae 2 per anther, oblong, held apart on. expanded connectives, the connectives consisting of a discoid or ellipsoid expansion at the filament apex and one slender arm to each theca; ovary narrowly ovoid, longitudinally sulcate; style 1.5 mm long, slightly curved, apically flattened; stigma a linear crest on the style. Capsules narrowly ovoid, ca 4 mm long, the walls stramineous, dehiscent loculicidally and septicidally from the apex, enclosed in accrescent calyx, the placenta enlarged, linear, persistent on the withered capsule; seeds numerous, ovoid, 0.3 mm long, longitudinally ridged with a reddish-brown reticulum. White 149.
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