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Capraria biflora Britton

Herb; leaves alternate, elliptic, coarsely toothed, pubescent; flowers axillary, nearly sessile; corolla bilaterally symmetric, lobes as long or longer than the tube, pale violet; fruit capsular.

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Capraria frutescens has smaller, less conspicuous, flowers with corolla lobes shorter than the tube.