Gonolobus fuscoviolaceus Woodson

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Gonolobus

Characteristics

Herbaceous vines; stems slender, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate apically, basally rounded to subcordate, discolorous, glabrous, mostly 5-10 cm long and 2-4 cm wide; petioles glabrous, 1.5-2.5 cm long. In-florescences umbelliform racemes, mostly 7-12-flowered, glabrate throughout; peduncles 10-12 mm long; pedicels 6-8 mm long. Flowers with the calyx lobes glabrous, lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm long and 1-1.5 mm wide; corolla rotate, green, 7-8 mm in diameter, the lobes ovate, 2.5-3 mm long and 2-2.5 mm wide, glabrous
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beneath, papillate above, the faucal annulus an inconspicuous 5-angled, puberulent ridge; anther appendages thick, subquadrate, broadly retuse apically, ca. 0.3 mm long and 0.5 mm wide; the corona 5-lobed, the lobes subquadrate, crenulate at the margins; gynostegium pentagonal; stigma head deeply depressed. Follicles + fusiform, long acuminate, winged dorsally and ventrally, the wings extending the full length of the fruit, 7.5 cm long, 0.5 cm in diameter (immature).
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Distribution

Gonolobus fuscoviolaceus world distribution map, present in Costa Rica and Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:112368-2
WFO ID wfo-0000706854
COL ID 3GYLV
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Synonyms

Gonolobus fuscoviolaceus