Tropicos | Name - !Didymochlamys Hook. f.

!Didymochlamys Hook. f.

Flora Data (Last Modified On 9/4/2013)

Genus	Didymochlamys Hook. f.,
PlaceOfPublication	Icon. Pl. pl. 1122. 1872.
Note	TYPE: D. whitei Hook. f.
Description	Epiphytic herbs. Leaves sessile or subsessile, alternate, anisophyllous, pre- sumably distichous, the lateral veins evanescent; stipules small, dimorphic, sub- ulate or linear lanceolate, apparently not occupying a fixed position with relation to the petiole attachment. Inflorescences terminal, pedunculate, the latter ter- minated by 2 large subrotund bracts enclosing 2 or more flowers. Flowers with the calycine lobes 5, subulate, erect; corolla funnelform, pubescent at the base within near the filament attachment point, the lobes themselves lobed basally; stamens 5, unequal, the anthers ovate or oblong, apiculate, the filaments attached near the base of the tube; ovary 2-celled, the placentas with numerous ovules, arising from the base of the septum. Frui ts capsular, laterally compressed, 2-celled, dehiscing at the apex, the placentas attached basally to the septum, seeds numerous, minute, hairy, the hairs tufted at 1 point on the seed.
Habit	herbs
Distribution	known from Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
Note	There are two species in the genus.
Reference	Hooker, J. D. 1872. Didymochlamys whitei Hook. f. in Hooker's Icones Plan- tarum 21-22, pl. 1122. London.