Drymonia warszewicziana Hanst.

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Gesneriaceae > Drymonia

Characteristics

apex acuminate, the base cuneate, acute, sometimes oblique, nearly entire, above dark green, glabrous, below lighter green or reddish, sparsely strigillose; petioles slender, 0.7-3.1 cm long, green or reddish, sparsely strigillose. Inflorescences axillary of 1 or 2 flowers; peduncles lacking; bracts linear, 2-3 mm long, the pedicels ca. 1 cm long, glabrous. Flowers with the calyx lobes oblique, unequal, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 1.4-2.7 cm long, 6-10 mm wide, light green or green with dark red or darker green veins, or completely maroon, glabrous, long acuminate, the base rounded to cordate, sparsely pubescent to glabrous, entire but ciliate; corolla infundibuliform, the tube white or cream outside, reddish inside, glabrous below, strigose toward the limb, curved, oblique in the calyx, 2-3 cm long, ca. 5 mm in diam. at the saccate base, 8-10 mm in diam. at the throat, the limb spreading, oblique, the lobes rotund, each 5-7 mm long, reddish, lavender or yellow, erose; filaments coiling after anthesis, the anthers oblong, ca. 4 mm long; ovary pubescent; style puberulous toward the base, glabrescent above. Fruit flattened, ovoid, ca. 1 cm long, greenish outside, opening into 2 valves, inside brownish purple; seeds broadly fusiform, dark reddish brown, striate.
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Terrestrial or more usually epiphytic herbs, shrubs, or lianas; stems succulent, 1-2 m tall, nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite, nearly equal in a pair, narrowly or broadly elliptic to obovate, 4.6-15.2 cm long, 1.8-7.6 cm wide, membranous, the
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Images

Flower

Drymonia warszewicziana flower picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Drymonia warszewicziana world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:380755-1
WFO ID wfo-0000657503
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Synonyms

Drymonia warszewicziana