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|accepted_name=Callisia repens
|accepted_authority=(Jacquin) Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl., ed. 2
|place=1: 62. 1762
|year=1762
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|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Callisia;Callisia repens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Commelinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Callisia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Callisia repens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, mat-forming, repent (flowering stems ascending). <b>Leaves</b> 2-ranked, gradually reduced toward ends of flowering stems; blade ovate to lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, 1–3.5 × 0.6–1 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins scabrid, apex acute, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> sessile in axils of distal leaves of flowering stems, composed of pairs of sessile cymes (sometimes reduced to single cymes). <b>Flowers</b> bisexual and pistillate, odorless, subsessile; petals inconspicuous, white, lanceolate, 3–6 mm; stamens 0–6, long-exserted; filaments glabrous; ovary 2-locular, stigma penicillate. <b>Capsules</b> 2-locular. <b>Seeds</b> 1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early spring (Tex) or summer–fall (Fla.).
|habitat=Shady, rocky or gravelly places, and in citrus groves
|distribution=Fla.;La.;Tex.;West Indies;South America (to Argentina).
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name=Callisia repens
|author=
|authority=(Jacquin) Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering early spring (Tex) or summer–fall (Fla.).
|habitat=Shady, rocky or gravelly places, and in citrus groves
|distribution=Fla.;La.;Tex.;West Indies;South America (to Argentina).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl., ed. 2
|publication year=1762
|special status=
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|genus=Callisia
|species=Callisia repens
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