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Hoffmannia nesiota Donn. Sm. Search in The Plant ListSearch in IPNISearch in Australian Plant Name IndexSearch in NYBG Virtual HerbariumSearch in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleSearch in Type Specimen Register of the U.S. National HerbariumSearch in Virtual Herbaria AustriaSearch in JSTOR Plant ScienceSearch in SEINetSearch in African Plants Database at Geneva Botanical GardenAfrican Plants, Senckenberg Photo GallerySearch in Flora do Brasil 2020Search in Reflora - Virtual HerbariumSearch in Living Collections Decrease font Increase font Restore font
 

Published In: Botanical Gazette 61(5): 374–375. 1916. (Bot. Gaz.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Notes: This species has a rather robust hirtellous to glabrescent habit, generally elliptic petiolate leaves, cymose pedunculate inflorescences borne generally with the leaves, pedicellate flowers, rotate white corollas 10-12 mm long, and somewhat large suglobose fruits. Hoffmannia piratarum is the only other species of this genus known from Cocos Island, and is generally similar but more slender.
Distribution: At 0-200 m on Cocos Island, in the Pacific Ocean west of Costa Rica.

 


 

 
 
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