Burmannia capitata

Burmannia capitata
Burmannia capitata, French Guiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Dioscoreales
Family: Burmanniaceae
Genus: Burmannia
Species: B. capitata
Binomial name
Burmannia capitata
(Walter ex J.F. Gmel.) Mart.
Synonyms[1]
  • Vogelia capitata Walter ex J.F. Gmel.
  • Burmannia bracteosa Gleason
  • Burmannia capitata (Walter ex J.F. Gmel.) Chapm.
  • Burmannia capitata f. bracteosa (Gleason) Jonker
  • Gyrotheca capitata (Walter ex J.F. Gmel.) Morong
  • Tripterella capitata (Walter ex J.F. Gmel.) F. Michx.

Burmannia capitata is a plant species widespread across the West Indies and much of Latin America. It grows in wet areas at elevations less than 100 m. It has been reported from Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, southern Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Veracruz, Tabasco), Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela, and the United States (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Texas, Oklahoma)[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Burmannia capitata is an annual herb up to 35 cm tall. It has 0-3 basal leaves plus several cauline (stem) leaves, all lanceolate, up to 8 mm long. Inflorescence is a small cyme frequently resembling a head, with up to 25 flowers. Flowers are 3-ribbed or slightly 3-winged. Flowers are white, about 1 mm in diameter.[3][9][10][11]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List
  2. ↑ Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D.E. Atha. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 85: i–ix, 1–246.
  3. 1 2 Flora of North America v 26 p 487
  4. ↑ CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.
  5. ↑ Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.
  6. ↑ Foster, R. C. 1958. A catalogue of the ferns and flowering plants of Bolivia. Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 184: 1–223.
  7. ↑ Zuloaga, F. O., O. N. Morrone, M. J. Belgrano, C. Marticorena & E. Marchesi. (eds.) 2008. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 3 Vols., 3348 p.
  8. ↑ Parker III, T. A. & B. Bailey. 1991. A biological assessment of the Alto Madidi region and adjacent areas of Northwest Bolivia. RAP Working Papers 1: 1–108.
  9. ↑ Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States Monocotyledons 1–712. The University of Georgia Press, Athens.
  10. ↑ Martius, Carl (Karl) Friedrich Philipp von. 1823. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum 1: 12.
  11. ↑ Morong, Thomas. 1893. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 20: 472.
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