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Ferdinandusa sprucei K. Schum.

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Published In: Flora Brasiliensis 6(6): 210. 1889. (Fl. Bras.)

Synonymy

Ferdinandusa paporiensis Suess.

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 9/9/2020)

Acceptance : Accepted

Project Data (Last Modified On 9/9/2020)

Notes :

This species is charcterized by medium-sized,. somewhat stiff-textured leaves, subsessile to shortly pedicellate 4-merous flowers, a dentate calyx limb ca. 0.5-01 mm long, white to cream-colored corollas with the tube 23-30 mm long, and elongated capsules 8-14 cm long. Anunciação (2004) synonymized Ferdinandusa paporiensis with this species and is followed here. Ferdinandusa sprucei is similar to Ferdinandusa rudgeoides, with shorter capsules, and these seem difficult to separate in bud.

Distribution : Occasionally collected in forests, usually along rivers and in seasonally inundated areas, often on sandy substrates, in the northern and northwestern Amazon basin, in Brazil (Amazonas), Colombia (Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Vaupés), and Venezuela (Amazonas).