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|accepted_name=Rhexia cubensis
|accepted_authority=Grisebach
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cat. Pl. Cub.,
|place=104. 1866
|year=1866
}}
|common_names=West Indies meadow beauty
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhexia floridana
|authority=Nash
|rank=species
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|name=R. mariana var. portoricensis
|authority=Cogniaux
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Melastomataceae;Rhexia;Rhexia cubensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Melastomataceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhexia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rhexia cubensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Caudices </b>not developed; roots often long and rhizomelike, tuberiferous. <b>Stems</b> unbranched or few-branched proximally, 30–60 cm, faces strongly unequal, 1 pair of opposite faces rounded to convex, the other narrower, flat or concave, internodes and nodes sparsely villous, hairs gland-tipped. <b>Leaves</b> sessile; blade linear or linear-elliptic to oblong or narrowly spatulate, 2–4 cm × 1–4(–8) mm, apparently 1-veined, margins serrate, surfaces sparsely glandular-hirsute. <b>Inflorescences</b> diffuse, not obscured by bracts. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium ovoid to subglobose, about as long as the constricted neck, (10–)14–15(–16) mm, sparsely hirsute, hairs gland-tipped; calyx lobes narrowly triangular to oblong-triangular, apices acute; petals spreading, bright to pale lavender-rose, 1.5–2 cm; anthers curved, 7–10 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 0.7 mm, surfaces concentrically, evenly ridged, especially along crest. <b>2n</b> = 22, 44, 66.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug(–Sep).
|habitat=Pine savannas and flatwoods, pine-cypress flats, lime sinkponds, longleaf pine hills, hillside bogs, seeps, sandy lakeshores and pond edges, swamp margins, salt marsh and canal banks, ditches, roadsides, sandy peat.
|elevation=0–50 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;West Indies (Cuba;Hispaniola;Puerto Rico).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rhexia cubensis
|authority=Grisebach
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Rhexia floridana;R. mariana var. portoricensis
|basionyms=
|family=Melastomataceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug(–Sep).
|habitat=Pine savannas and flatwoods, pine-cypress flats, lime sinkponds, longleaf pine hills, hillside bogs, seeps, sandy lakeshores and pond edges, swamp margins, salt marsh and canal banks, ditches, roadsides, sandy peat.
|elevation=0–50 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;West Indies (Cuba;Hispaniola;Puerto Rico).
|reference=None
|publication title=Cat. Pl. Cub.,
|publication year=1866
|special status=
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|genus=Rhexia
|species=Rhexia cubensis
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