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Burmeistera toroensis Wilbur

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Campanulaceae > Burmeistera

Characteristics

Suffrutescent herbs; stems purplish, glabrous throughout. Principal leaves with blades apparently somewhat thickened or fleshy, elliptic, 4-7.5 cm long, 1.5-2.7 cm wide or ca. 2.5-3 times as long as wide, apically acute to acuminate, basally acutely tapering, marginally with a slightly thickened border and entire or obscurely serrulate with 1-2(-4) slightly incurved, callose-tipped serrulations per cm, both surfaces glabrous; petioles 6-9 mm long. Flowers 3(-4?) cm long; pedicels solitary in the upper leaf axils, straight, divergent, glabrous, ebracteolate,
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ca. 5 cm long; hypanthium obconic to somewhat cylindric, glabrous, basally acute, 6 mm long; calyx lobes erect, ovate, obtuse, entire, glabrous, 1-1.5 mm long; corolla glabrous, purplish, the tube 13-15 mm long, the lobes lance-oblong, acute, the 2 upper lobes 7 mm long, the 2 lateral lobes about 5 mm long, the lowermost lobe not seen; filament tube immature, glabrous, the anthers externally glabrous with an apical fringe of short white trichomes. Fruits unknown.
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Distribution

Burmeistera toroensis world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38500-2
WFO ID wfo-0000826215
COL ID NXW4
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Synonyms

Burmeistera toroensis
WorldFloraDB 2024