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Comprehensive Description

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Mollugo pinosia Urban, Ark. Bot. 22A 17 : 13. 1929
A low perennial herb, with glabrous stems; leaves whorled, 3-6 at each node, the blades linear-filiform or narrowly oblong-linear, 5-12 mm. long, 0.2-0.7 mm. broad, rounded or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base; flowers 1 or 3 at the nodes; pedicels 5-S mm. long, filiform; sepals lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 2.5 mm. long, obtuse at the apex; stamens 6-S, the filaments 2 mm. long; styles 3; capsule globose, 3-8-seeded; seeds reniform, 0.8-0.9 mm. long, 0.7-0.8 mm. broad, black, slightly ridged.
Type locality: Near Los Indios, Isle of Pines. Distribution: Isle of Pines.
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Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg. 1932. CHENOPODIALES. North American flora. vol 21(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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