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(Last Modified On 7/30/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/30/2013)
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Species
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Megaskepasma erythrochlamys Lindau
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 666. 1897.
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Note
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TYPE: Venezuela, Funk & Schlim 1171 (B? if extant, not seen).
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Description
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Shrub to 4 m tall; stems subquadrangular, sparingly puberulous. Leaves elliptic, to 24 cm long and 10.5 cm wide, apically acuminate with a rounded, apiculate tip, basally acute, sparingly strigose on the costa and the lateral veins of both surfaces, the cystoliths none, the margins entire to crenulate; petioles puberulous, to 2 cm long. Inflorescences in clustered, loose, terminal spikes, the spikes to 19 cm long and 4 cm wide, the peduncle brown puberulous, to 3.5 cm long, the rachis brown puberulous, terete, the bract solitary, ovate to elliptic, to 3.5 cm long, 2 cm wide, apically acute, basally acute, deep red, drying to reddish brown, sparingly strigulose on both surfaces, mostly restricted to the costa, the margins entire; bractlets elliptic, to 20 mm long, 5 mm wide, apically acute, basally attenuate, sparingly strigulose. Flowers with the calyx segments equal, lanceolate, to 10 mm long, 2 mm wide at base, densely strigose; corolla white, tube cylindrical, to 25 mm long, 2 mm wide, pilosulous, the upper lip lanceolate, to 35 mm long, 5 mm wide basally, apically bilobed, the lobes subulate, 1.5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide at the base, the lower lip elliptic, 35 mm long, 8 mm wide, pilosulous outside, apically 3-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, 7 mm long, 2 mm wide at base; stamens exserted ca. 3 cm beyond throat of the corolla, the filaments glabrous, the anthers 4.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, basally mucronate; ovary 2 mm long, glabrous; capsules clavate, to 30 mm long, 8 mm wide, apically at- tenuate and mucronate, glabrous; seeds 4, suborbiculate, flattened, ca. 6 mm in diameter, glabrous.
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Habit
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Shrub
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Note
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This plant is native to Venezuela and is found cultivated throughout much of the neotropics. Capsules and seeds were described from a Costa Rican speci- men, Durkee 75-189 (MO).
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Native
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Venezuela
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUi: Cultivated at Motel Calejon, David, D'Arcy 9759 (MO).
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