Dimorphanthera brevipes Schltr.

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae > Dimorphanthera

Characteristics

Epiphytic, much branched shrub. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves lax, elliptic-oblong, apex obtusely acuminate, base broadly attenuate, basal glands +-inconspicuous, subcoriaceous, glabrous, very laxly glandular-punctate beneath, edge shallowly remotely crenulate, sub-5-7-plinerved from and from up to 2 cm above the base, 10-19 by 4-7 cm, nerves and midrib ± impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation lax, a little raised beneath only; petiole 7-10 by c. 1.5 mm. Inflorescences ± many-flowered abbreviate racemes or clusters from defoliate axils. Pedicels rather stoutish, short-pubescent distally, 5-7 mm. Calyx tube cylindric, c. 2 mm, minutely pubescent, base subtruncate, limb erecto-patent, entire or hardly 5-denticulate or-apiculate, 1.5 mm. Corolla subtubular, c. 1.3 cm, subcampanulate-dilated and c. 8 mm across the lobes, rose red, or white with rose red stripes outside and light red inside, short-pubescent outside, lobes triangular, bluntish. Stamens 7.5-8 and 6.5 mm; major stamens', filaments 3 mm, densely sub-sericeous-hirsutulous distally as is the connective; cells narrow-oblong, 6 mm including the c. 2 mm long, ± divergent tubules, base acute and a little curved inward; processes +-connate, subdensely hirsutulous, slightly longer. Disk glabrous. Style slender, c. 2 cm, distinctly exserted.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Environment

In dense, also secondary mountain forest at c. 850-1520 m. Fl.--10.
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Distribution

Dimorphanthera brevipes world distribution map, present in Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327774-1
WFO ID wfo-0000647826
COL ID 8S5DZ
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Synonyms

Dimorphanthera brevipes