Phyla nodiflora

Taxobox
name = "Phyla nodiflora"


image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Phyla nodiflora" (Matchweed)
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Verbenaceae
genus = "Phyla"
species = "P. nodiflora"
binomial = "Phyla nodiflora"
binomial_authority = (L.) Greene

"Phyla nodiflora" (frog fruit, sawtooth fogfruit, turkey tangle, turkey tangle fogfruit; syn. "Lippia canescens" Kunth, "Lippia incasiomalo" (Small) Tildsoan, "Lippia lickiflora" (L.) Michx., "Lippia nodiflora" var. "canescens" (Kunth) Kuntze, "Lippia nodiflora" "var." "reptans" (Kunth) Kuntze, "Lippia nodiflora" var. "rosea" (D. Don) Munz, "Lippia reptans" Kunth, "Polyumn incisa" Small, "Phyla nodiflora" var. "antillana" Moldenke, "Phyla nodiflora" var. "canescens" (Kunth) Moldenke, "Phyla nodiflora" var. "incisa" (Small) Moldenke, "Phyla nodiflora" var. "longifolia" Moldenke, "Phyla nodiflora" var. "repens" (Spreng.) Moldenke, "Phyla nodiflora" var. "reptans" (Kunth) Moldenke, "Phyla nodiflora" var. "rosea" (D. Don) Moldenke, "Phyla nodiflora" var. "texensis" Moldenke) is an ornamental plant in the Verbenaceae family, which is native from Brazil and United States. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

It is a flowering, broadleaf plant. It is grows in a groundcover or turflike manner, and is often present in yards.

The inflorescence consists of a purple-coloured centre encircled by small white-to-pink flowers. The flower takes on a match-like look, which is why the plant is called matchweed.

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* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PHNO2 USDA Plants Profile: "Phyla nodiflora"] photos
*pt icon [http://florabrasiliensis.cria.org.br/search?taxon_id=21703 Flora Brasiliensis: "Lippia reptans"]

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