Diastema hispidum Fritsch

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Gesneriaceae > Diastema

Characteristics

lacking, flowers then appearing fasciculate; bracts lanceolate, 2-5 mm long, green, pilose; pedicels 0.8-1.5 cm long, elongating in fruit, green, pilose. Flowers with a globose floral tube, ca. 4 mm in diam., pilose; calyx lobes lanceolate, 2-5 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, the corolla white with purple spots within or with lines or spots on the limb, the tube funnelform to cylindric, 0.9-1.8 cm long, pilose, the lobes ca. 1.5 mm long; stamens with the anther locules orbicular; disc of 5 broadly linear glands shorter than the apex of the ovary; style equalling the length of the corolla tube. Capsule globose; seeds dark reddish brown, rhombic.
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Slender herbs; stem erect to repent or decumbent, rooting at the nodes, to 15 cm tall; internodes to 5 cm long, reddish toward the lower part, green upwardly, densely pilose. Leaves ovate, 2.5-6.6 cm long, 1.4-3.8 cm wide, the apex acute, the base occasionally oblique, acute to truncate, crenate to serrate, medium green above, pilose to hispid, beneath lighter green, pilose, densely pilose along the veins; petioles 0.5-1.8 cm long, green or reddish, pilose. Inflorescences com-monly in each axil, cymose or racemose, of 1-4 flowers, the peduncles short or
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Diastema hispidum world distribution map, present in Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:79166-2
WFO ID wfo-0000644800
COL ID 35FFW
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Synonyms

Achimenes mollis Diastema hispidum Diastema lehmannii Diastema molle Diastema peruanum Episcia hispida Trevirana mollis