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Spermacoce capitata - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil; 4/2012 © Jörn Germer

Spermacoce capitata - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil; 4/2012 © Jörn Germer

Spermacoce capitata - Leaf base - Click to enlarge!

Leaf base; Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil; 4/2012 © Jörn Germer

Spermacoce capitata - Inflorescence, side view (the pods close the inflorescence are of <a href=http://www.virboga.de/Crotalaria_incana.htm><i>Crotalaria incana</i></a>) - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence, side view (the pods close the inflorescence are of Crotalaria incana); Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil; 4/2012 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1901
Date of entry: 23.04.2012
Last update: 12.01.2020

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2717)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2632)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2219)

      Order: Gentianales (113)

        Family: Rubiaceae (62)(family description)

          Genus: Spermacoce (5)

            Epithet: capitata Ruiz & Pav. (3)

Synonym: Borreria capitata (Ruiz & Pav.) DC.

capitata => head-shaped, as ahead of composite bloom

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

External links

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