Habit: Perennial herb, generally prostrate, soft-hairy to woolly, hairs simple.
Leaf: opposite; petioled; blade linear or lanceolate to spoon-shaped or ovate, margins entire.
Inflorescence: axillary, sessile, few-flowered heads; bracts, bractlets membranous, white, glabrous, persistent.
Flower: bisexual; perianth bell-shaped, perianth parts 5, fused +- 1/2, 1-veined; stamens 5, filaments fused basally into tube attached to top of perianth tube, anthers 2-chambered, pseudostaminodes 0; ovary ovoid, ovule 1, style 1, +- 0.2 mm, stigmas 2-lobed, spheric.
Fruit: utricle, wall membranous.
Seed: 1 lenticular to spheric, smooth, shiny.
Species In Genus: +- 5 species: southern United States to South America.
Etymology: (Antoine Guillemin, French botanist, explorer, 1796--1842)
Jepson eFlora Author: Mihai Costea
Reference: Henrickson 1987 Sida 12:307--337
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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