Blutapharon vermiculare
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Description
Perennial herb, diffuse with creeping prostrate branches to ca. 90 cm long, rooting at nodes; stems nodose, pinkish, glabrous except for tufts of hairs in leaf-axils. Petioles of a pair joined and clasping stem at base; blade linear to linear-spathulate, to 6.7 x 0.7 cm, rounded (sometimes acute) at apex, glabrous. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary, solitary, conical, ovoid or cylindrical (rarely clavate) head to 20 x 8 mm, sessile or peduncle to 2.5 cm long; bracts scarious, deltate to lanceolate, 1.8-2.3 mm long, acute; bracteoles 1.2-3 mm long, exceeding bracts but shorter than tepals. Tepals ovate-lanceolate, 3-3.5 mm long, apiculate, scarious, white or pink, minutely ciliolate on sides at base (this hidden by enclosing bases of bracteoles), prominently 3-veined in lower half; filaments included, anthers 0.4 mm long, yellow; ovary included.