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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 7/30/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 7/30/2013)
Genus Megaskepasma Lindau
PlaceOfPublication Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 666. 1897.
Note TYPE: M. erythrochlamys Lindau.
Description Shrubs. Leaves large, elliptic, lacking cystoliths, petioled. Inflorescences in loose, terminal spikes, the bracts and the bractlets large and conspicuously colored. Flowers with calyx of 5 equal segments; corolla bilabiate, salverform, the upper lip bifid, the lower lip 3-lobed; stamens 2, the anthers 2-celled; stigma subcapitate; capsules clavate, 4-seeded, the seeds borne on hooklike funicles.
Habit Shrubs
Distribution This genus is monotypic and is endemic to the neotropics.
 
 
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