Zornia herbacea Pittier, Bol. Soc. Venez. Cienc. Nat.

Zornia herbacea Pittier, Bol. Soc. Venez. Cienc. Nat. View in CoL 6: 192. 1940.

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Type: VENEZUELA. Anzoátegui: Sabanas de Guaraguara, cerca de Santomé , 25 March 1940, Pittier 14337 (holotype US ; isotype VEN–5282 ! ).

Shrub to ca. 20 cm tall. Stems prostrate, branched, puberulent. Leaves with 2 leaflets, petiolate. Leaflets 15–20 × 3–5 mm, ovate to lanceolate, strigose. Stipules elliptic, 3–5 veined. Inflorescences spiciform, axillary, 10 cm long. Bracteoles 6–8 × 3–4 mm, lanceolate, 5 veined, punctate, strigose, green. Loment with 4–6 articles; articles 2–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm, not reticulate-veined, bristle-like trichomes 0.5 mm long.

Distribution and habitat: Venezuela, endemic. It occurs in Savanna.

Conservation Status: Data Deficient (DD). Zornia herbacea is known only from a few collections. Information about its distribution is insufficient to make an accurate conservation assessment (EOO=0 km²; AOO= 8.000 km ²).

Notes: Zornia herbacea morphologically resembles Zornia ramboana , but it differs by its prostrate stems (vs. erect in Z. ramboana ) and its 10 cm long inflorescences (vs. 20 cm in Z. ramboana ).

Representative specimen examined: VENEZUELA. Zulia: near Santa Rosa de Tierra, Maracaibo, s.d., Pittier 10701 (NY, US).