CHR 495948 – Commelina diffusa Burm.f.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 495948
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
14 October 1994
Database record updated:
20 September 2013
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Commelina diffusa
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1992-05-14 (Verbatim: 14 May 1992)
Preferred name:
Commelina diffusa Burm.f.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Commelinales
Family:
Commelinaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Austral Islands, Raivavae, valley behind Vaiuru
Verbatim locality:
Austral Islands, Raivavae, valley behind Vaiuru
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 324/FP
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
14 May 1992
Start date:
1992-05-14
Country:
French Polynesia
Altitudes:
from 300m
Habitat:
Bottom of gully with lava dyke and seeping water close by, tall herb dominated community.
Notes:
Semi-succulent plant with long stems straggling up through long grass and other tall herbs, sometimes rooting at nodes where touching the ground on slopes. Common to abundant, especially up sides of nearby lava cascade where it forms dense mats. Perianth bright blue; 2 large tepals 6-8 mm limb diameter, suborbicular with a large sinus (like a miniature Nymphaea leaf); claw of these tepals c. 4 mm long, very slender; third tepal ± clawless, c. 5 mm long, remaining partially folded.
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