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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Malvales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Melochia spicata var. spicata   FAMILY Malvaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melochia spicata   FAMILY Sterculiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Melochia spicata

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)

Melochia villosa

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Melochia spicata

INCLUDED WITHIN The genera of Sterculiaceae in the Southeastern US (Brizicky, 1966)

Melochia villosa

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Riedlea hirsuta

 

COMMON NAME:
Bretonica-peluda


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image of Melochia spicata var. spicata, Bretonica-peluda

Keith Bradley    kab_melochia_spicata_4629

October    Lee County    FL

Wild Turkey Strand Preserve

Leaves densely pubescent, ovate-oblong. Flwrs bell-shaped in upper leaf axils, per Everglades Wildflowers (Hammer, 2002, 2015).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Melochia spicata var. spicata   FAMILY Malvaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melochia spicata   FAMILY Sterculiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Melochia spicata

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Melochia villosa

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Melochia spicata

INCLUDED WITHIN The genera of Sterculiaceae in the Southeastern US (Brizicky, 1966)
Melochia villosa

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Riedlea hirsuta

 

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4018

Subshrub; Forb
Annual/Perennial

Habitat: calcareous pine flatwoods, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: tropical America, the original distribution uncertain

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have short petioles.

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Pink, purplish, or violet
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary

Inflorescences spikelike

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Brown
Capsule

 

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