{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = Murdannia spirata W2 IMG 2442.jpg |status = LC |status_system = IUCN3.1 |status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn | author = Mani, S. | title = ''Murdannia spirata'' | article-number = e.T177118A7369665 | year = 2011 | access-date = 14 October 2022}}</ref> |genus = Murdannia |species = spirata |authority = (L.) G.Brückn. |synonyms = *''Aneilema canaliculatum'' <small>Dalzell</small> *''Aneilema melanostictum'' <small>Hance</small> *''Aneilema nanum'' <small>(Roxb.) Kunth</small> *''Aneilema spiratum'' <small>(L.) R.Br.</small> *''Aneilema spiratum'' <small>(L.) Sweet</small> *''Aphylax spiralis'' <small>(L.) Salisb.</small> *''Commelina bracteolata'' <small>Lam.</small> *''Commelina nana'' <small>Roxb.</small> *''Commelina pumila'' <small>Royle ex C.B.Clarke </small> *''Commelina spirata'' <small>L. </small> *''Phaeneilema spiratum'' <small>(L.) G.Brückn.</small> *''Streptylis bracteolata'' <small>(Lam.) Raf.</small> |synonyms_ref = <ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/name/8300318 Tropicos]</ref><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-254718 The Plant List]</ref> }}

'''''Murdannia spirata''''', common name '''Asiatic dewflower''',<ref>[http://herbarium.biol.sc.edu/floracaroliniana/taxa/index.php?taxon=58056&taxauthid=1&cl=12 Flora Caroliniana, University of South Carolina]</ref><ref>[http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Asiatic%20Dewflower.html Flowers of India]</ref> is a tropical plant species native to China, India, Southeast Asia and the islands of the Pacific.<ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=222000251 Flora of China, v 24 p 29.]</ref> It is now also naturalized in Florida, first collected there from the wild in 1965.<ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=222000251 Flora of North America v 22]</ref> In Asia, it is found in forests and in wet wastelands, often along streams. In Florida, it has been collected from palm hummocks and marshes in and just north of the Everglades.

''Murdannia spirata'' is a perennial herb with narrowly ovate to lanceolate clasping leaves and pale blue flowers.<ref>Brückner, Gerhard., in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Die naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien, zweite Auflage. 15a: 173. 1930.</ref><ref>Linnaeus, Carl von. Mantissa Plantarum 2: 176–177. 1771.</ref>

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Category:Commelinaceae Category:Flora of China Category:Flora of tropical Asia Category:Flora of the Pacific Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Commelinales-stub}}