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(Last Modified On 4/9/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/9/2013)
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Species
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Lochnera rosea (L.) Reichenb.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Consp. Regni Veg. 134. 1828.-FIG. OA.
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Synonym
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Vinca rosea L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 944. 1759. Catharanthus roseus G. Don, Gen. Syst. 4: 95. 1837 (1838).
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Description
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Herbs, suffrutescent basally, to 60 cm, the younger stems sparsely pubescent, lacticiferous. Leaves oblong-elliptic to ? spatulate, mucronulate, obtuse to at- tenuate basally, to 6 cm long and 3 cm wide, sparsely pubescent, more so on the veins beneath, rarely ? glabrous, slightly succulent; petioles 3-10 mm long, bearing several glands in the axils. Inflorescences cymose, sessile, 1-4-flowered, axillary and opposite. Flowers with the pedicels 1-3 mm long; calyx-lobes elongate-deltoid, ca. 5-7 mm long, sparsely pubescent; corolla salverform, white, lavender, or rose-pink, the tube 20-25 mm long, sparsely pubescent externally, densely so internally near the level of stamen attachment and the orifice, the lobes obovate-dolabriform, ca. 15-23 mm long, spreading; stamens included, attached near the apex of the corolla tube, the anthers ca. 2 mm long; ovary pubescent, the nectaries 2, 2-3 mm long at anthesis, the stigma pentagonal-umbraculiform. Follicles 2, slender, terete and longitudinally ridged, 15-25 mm long; mature seeds unknown.
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Habit
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Herbs
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Distribution
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Native to Madagascar, but widely cultivated and escaped in the tropics and subtropics.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Ebinger 204 (MO). Near Fort Randolph, Stand- ley 28758 (US). Rio Pedro Miguel, near East-Paraiso, Standley 30011 (US). HERRERA: 4 mi. S of Los Pozos, Tyson 2642 (MO).
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