(Last Modified On 4/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/4/2013)
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Species
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Salvia hyptoides Mart. & Gal.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 11(2): 74, 1844.-Fig. 1.
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Description
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Herbs, annual, erect to 60 cm. Leaves deltoid-ovate, acuminate, serrate, the bases truncate to slightly obtuse, to 5 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, both surfaces sparingly pubescent, more so on the veins beneath; petioles ca 1-2 cm long. Inflorescences verticils, densely-flowered, globose, 12-15 mm broad, the verticils
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Herbs
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Description
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distant below and crowded above, the bracts reniform and acuminate, often membranous, reticulately veined, ca 8-10 mm wide. Flowers ? sessile or with pedicels to 1.5 mm long; calyx ? tubular, 3.5-4 mm long, the upper lip with single tooth and ca 5-9-veined, the lower with 2 teeth, pubescent near the apex; corolla tubular, 2.5-3.5 mm long, blue, naked within, the upper lip ca 1 mm long and with glandular-capitate hairs, the lower lip ca 1.5 mm long and spread- ing; stamens mounted on the corolla throat, the connective retrorsely toothed below the middle, the anthers ca 0.3-0.4 mm long; style glabrous, the stigma with 2 branches acute and rounded. Nutlets 3-4, ovate and ? flattened, ca 0.5-0.7 mm long, the testa smooth and pale brown.
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Distribution
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Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela.
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Specimen
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CANAL. ZONE: around El Paraiso, Pittier 2575 (F). CHIRIQUI: upper valley of Rio Chiriqui Viejo, White & White 105 (MO). DARIEN: Boca de Cupe, 40 m, Allen 904 (MO). HERRERA: OCU, 100 m, Allen 4045 (MO). LOS SANTOS: rd betw Tonosi & Macaracas, Oliver et al. 3564 (MO). PANAMA: Sabanas nr Chepo, 30 m, Hunter & Allen 23 (F, MO). SAN BLAS: vic of Mulatuppu, Duke 8488 (MO).
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