Lechea prismatica Small. Common name: Prism Pinweed. Habitat: Florida scrub. Distribution: Endemic to c. FL peninsula.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Taxonomy Comments: Most authors have not recognized the name Lechea prismatica Small since its publication. It apparently differs from L. sessiliflora by its more ellipsoid-prismatic fruit to bearing 3 angles (vs. subglobose ellipsoid or oval capsules without angles).
Synonymy ⓘ: = S; < Lechea sessiliflora Raf. — FNA6, K4, NS, POWO, Hodgdon (1938). Basionym: Lechea prismatica Small 1933
Links to other floras: < Lechea sessiliflora - FNA6
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Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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