Digital Herbaria

Specimen & Label Data

Carlowrightia torreyana

Carlowrightia

Acanthaceae

Location: 14511 Star Cross Trail, Helotes, TX.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Under Juniperus ashei & Diospyros texana. In shady, decomposed litter.

Description: Prostrate, persistant, woody stem to 1 m long, nude. New growth ascending to 30 cm, dichotomously branching. Leaves opposite, orbicular, entire, broadly acute apically, veination arcuate, 10x15 to 30x32 mm. Petiole 5-18 mm. Infloresence axillary raceme 10 cm long, bracteate, sepals-5, petals white. Fruit a beaked, 6 mm capsule, stiped. Seed-4, circular, black, flat.

County: Bexar
Collector: Mike Fox
Collection Date: Aug. 30, 1993
Specimen number: 022

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0497
Accession Date: Jan. 25, 1994
Accession Number: 38

Annotations: SCFXB.