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(Last Modified On 5/24/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/24/2013)
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Species
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Tropaeolum moritzianum Klotzsch,
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PlaceOfPublication
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Allg. Gartenz. 6: 241. 1838.
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Description
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Stout annual climber, to 10 m long, in all parts glabrous. Leaves with small, persistent stipules; petioles to 15 cm, pendant, reddish; lamina orbicular to suborbicular, 3.5-9 cm long and 4-11 cm broad, normally glaucescent below, slightly 5-7-lobed to sublobate, the lobes obtuse to subacute, mucronulate or emucronate, peltate, the base slightly concave or subtruncate, rarely somewhat convex, principal nerves 5, the middle 3 unforked. Flowers on long (somewhat longer than the petioles) peduncles, these often reddish; calyx lobes homo- morphic, elliptic, subacute, 10-12 mm long and 4-5 mm broad, like the base of
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Habit
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climber
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Description
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the spur red or crimson, sometimes greenish at the tips; spur 20-25 mm, straight or somewhat curved upwards, basally conical and with a slender greenish apex; petals yellow, orange or reddish, the nerves red or purplish giving the petals a reddish image, serrate-ciliate apically and laterally, the upper petals cuneate to spathulate (or broadly unguiculate), 8-9 mm long, 4-5 mm broad near the apex, the lower petals long-unguiculate, 10-12 mm long with ciliate stipe, the lamina 7 mm long, 4-5.5 mm broad. Fruiting carpels large, 10 mm, triangular, ribbed.
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Note
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Not known from Panama, but ranging from Guatemala to Costa Rica and known also from Colombia and Venezuela, this species is often confused with T. emarginatum
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Distribution
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ranging from Guatemala to Costa Rica and known also from Colombia and Venezuela
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