Dissotis peregrina A.Fern. & R.Fern.

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Melastomataceae > Dissotis

Characteristics

Leaves opposite or 3-nate; lamina up to 17·5 x 3·8 cm., oblong-lanceolate, round or subcordate at the base, subacute at the apex, crenate-serrate at the margin (each tooth ending in a fringed bristle), coriaceous, concolorous or slightly discolorous (light or dull green above, paler beneath), longitudinally 3(5)-nerved, the longitudinal nerves impressed above, raised beneath as well as the numerous transverse ones and the reticulation; upper face of lamina covered with short conic or pyramidal prominences ornamented by raised white lines converging into a short apical bristle; under face foveolate, ± hairy and with the longitudinal nerves covered by appressed scales similar to the cauline ones but longer; petiole 1–2 cm. long, robust, scaly.
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Sepals 8–11 x 3–4 mm., oblong, emarginate or truncate at the apex, purplish, dorsally scaly-setose at the apex; intersepalar segments 2·5 x l·5 mm., oblong, slightly dilated and setose near the apex.
Fructiferous receptacle c. 10 x 8 mm., ovoid-cylindric. Capsule c. 8 x 6 mm., setose on the upper half, and with a crown of white fringed-pectinate scales around the insertion of the style.
Flowers 5-merous, in terminal somewhat lax panicles; bracts 8–9 x 6–7 mm., ovate, obtuse, scaly outside, caducous; pedicels c. 1 mm. long.
Receptacle c. 8 x 5 mm., cylindric-campanulate, covered with very short appendages pectinate-setose at the apex.
Branches terete, covered with very appressed scales up to 1·5 mm. long.
Seeds c. 0·75 mm. long, minutely papillose-tuberculate.
A perennial herb or shrub up to c. 2 m. high.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 2.0
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:568549-1
WFO ID wfo-0001233202
COL ID 7VJFM
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Synonyms

Dissotis kassneri Dissotis peregrina