page_title: Callisia repens
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Callisia repens / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Location taken: Behnke Nurseries, Beltsville, MD USA. Names: Callisia repens (Jacq.) L., Bolivian Jew, Creeping Inchplant, Kriechendes Schönpolster, Turtle Vine, 舖地錦竹 Classification: Plantae &gt; Magnoliophyta &gt; Liliopsida &gt; Commelinales &gt; Commelinaceae &gt; Tradescantieae &gt; Tradescantiinae &gt; Callisia &gt; Callisia repens.
context_page_description: Callisia repens, also known as creeping inchplant, Bolivian Jew or turtle vine, is a succulent creeping plant from the family Commelinaceae. This species comes from Central and South America.
context_section_description: The perennial plant forms creeping mats. The flowering shoots are ascending. The fleshy, delicated leaves grow smaller towards the tip of the shoot. The leaf blade is oval to lanceolate, one to 3.5 centimeters long and 0.6 to one centimeter wide. In the distal leaves, the blades are narrower than the open, spread leaf sheaths. It grows quickly, multiplies easily by long, creeping shoots that root in each node, as soon as it is on the ground. 
  The inflorescences sit in the armpits of the distal leaves of the flower sprout and consist of paired cymes. Produced in the summer, the flowers are hermaphrodite and odorless. The bracts are inconspicuous, white, lanceolate and three to six millimeters long. There are zero to six stamens with smooth filaments. The ovary is bipartite and has a brush-like scar. Capsule fruits with one millimeter large seeds develop.
caption: Leaves close up
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