Marcgravia brownei Krug & Urb.

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Marcgraviaceae > Marcgravia

Characteristics

Large epiphytic vine or liana; flowering branchlets pendulous, quadrangular to subterete, lenticellate. Leaves subsessile or short-petiolate, the petiole 1-5 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, flattened above; blade oblong, ca. 2.5-3 times as long as wide, 7-14 cm long and (2.5-)3-4.5(-5.5) cm wide, acuminate apically, the acumen 1-2 cm long, acute or attenuate to subrounded and asymmetric basally, coriaceous or thinly coriaceous, the midrib sulcate above, prominent be-neath, the lateral veins mostly obscure or obsolete; hypophyllous glands numerous, mostly conspicuous, some large or small glands in an oblique row in the basal part of the blade and a row of small or minute glands ca. 1-4 mm from the margin. Inflorescences umbelliform, with 15-30 fertile flowers and ca. 4-5 nectaries; nectaries flask-or pitcher-shaped, stalked, 3-5 cm long, the stalk mostly short, ca. 2-5 mm long (rarely longer), canaliculate, the cup clavate,
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2-4 cm long, the neck ca. 3-5 mm in diameter, the inflated part ca. 5-8 mm in diameter, the orifice rounded with a recurved apiculate rim. Flowers mostly slightly oblique on the pedicels, the pedicels 3.5-5.5 cm long, stout, lenticellate; bracteoles triangular-ovate to ovate-suborbicular, ca. 2-3 mm long and ca. 2 mm wide; sepals broadly suborbicular, to ca. 5 mm long and to ca. 8 mm wide; corolla conical-ovate, ca. 1.5 cm long, ca. 7 mm in diameter basally; stamens 18-35, the filaments flattened, filiform, 4-10 mm long, the anthers linear, 4-7 mm long; ovary subglobose, abruptly narrowed to the 2-4 mm long style, including the style 5-10 mm long and ca. 4 mm in diameter, 6-9-loculed. Fruit globose, apiculate, 1-2 cm in diameter.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

Leaf

Marcgravia brownei leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Marcgravia brownei leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Fruit

Marcgravia brownei fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Marcgravia brownei fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Marcgravia brownei fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Marcgravia brownei world distribution map, present in Panama and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:152975-2
WFO ID wfo-0000450728
COL ID 3Y2RV
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Synonyms

Marcgravia brownei Marcgravia ampulligera Marcgravia rectiflora var. brownei