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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 9/5/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 9/5/2013)
Species Hamelia rovirosae Wernham
PlaceOfPublication J. Bot. 49: 211. 1911.
Note TYPE: Mexico, Rovirosa 499 (NY, US, isotypes).
Synonym Hamelia patens var. coronata J. D. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 4: 4. 1905. TYPE: Guatemala, Tuerckheim 8532 (US, holotype; F, NY, isotypes). Hamelia purpurascens Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 52: 105. 1917. TYPE: British Honduras, Peck 104 (G, holotype).
Description Shrubs, the branchlets villous, the hairs septate. Leaves ternate, occasionally opposite, elliptic to ovate, 5-16 cm long, 2-7 cm wide, acuminate, attenuate at the base, the lateral veins 3-5, arcuate, glabrous to sparsely villose above, villous beneath; petioles 0.3-2.0 cm long; stipules linear, often widely so, 5-8 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, dichasial or often helicoid; peduncles to 3 cm long, vil- lous, the floral axes 1.5-3.5 cm long, each axis 3-8-flowered, the flowers secund, sessile or on pedicels 0.1-0.2 cm long. Flowers with the hypanthium to 4.5 mm long, villous, the calycine lobes oblong or triangular, 2.0-5.4 mm long, villous, glabrous within; corolla reddish orange to scarlet, the tube 1.8-2.2 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, villous, the lobes ovate, 1-2 mm long, acute, villous outside; anthers 10-12 mm long, the terminal appendage ovate, ca. 0.5 mm long, the filaments 7- 9 mm long; ovary 5-celled. Fruits cylindrical, to 1.2 cm long, 0.5-0.8 cm wide, red, finally black; seeds ca. 1 mm long.
Habit Shrubs
Distribution found in Mexico and throughout Central America.
Specimen BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Dunlap 192 (F).
 
 
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