Agapetes pensilis Airy Shaw

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs pendulous. Rootstock spindle-shaped, ca. 3.5 cm in diam. Twigs terete, 1–2 mm in diam., densely rust-or brown hirsute. Leaves dense; petiole ca. 1 mm or leaves subsessile; leaf blade ovate, elliptic, or suborbicular, 7–10 × 5–8 mm, leathery, abaxially densely or sparsely hirsute, adaxially rugose, sparsely puberulous, venation inconspicuous, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin recurved, entire, without basal glands, sparsely setose, apex acute or rounded, mucronulate. Inflorescences fasciculate, 1–3-flowered. Pedicel 1–3 mm, densely glandular villous, not swollen. Calyx tube ca. 2 mm, densely glandular villous; limb divided to base; lobes triangular-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, glandular villous. Corolla white, pink in bud, cylin–dric, ca. 1.6 cm, densely glandular villous; lobes erect or re–curved, triangular, 1–2 mm. Filaments ca. 1.1 cm, densely pubescent; anthers ca. 6.5 mm, tubules ca. as long as thecae, with 2 erect spurs ca. 1 mm. Berry unknown. Fl. Aug.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support epiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

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Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Agapetes pensilis world distribution map, present in China and Myanmar

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:326112-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523108
COL ID 65ML2
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Synonyms

Agapetes dulongensis Agapetes pensilis