Megaskepasma Lindau

Brazilian red-cloak (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Acanthaceae

Characteristics

Shrubs. Leaves large, elliptic, lacking cystoliths, petioled. Inflorescences in loose, terminal spikes, the bracts and the bractlets large and conspicuously colored. Flowers with calyx of 5 equal segments; corolla bilabiate, salverform, the upper lip bifid, the lower lip 3-lobed; stamens 2, the anthers 2-celled; stigma subcapitate; capsules clavate, 4-seeded, the seeds borne on hooklike funicles.
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Suffruticose. Leaves large, oblong, abruptly acuminate with a blunt tip, cuneate at base, petioled. Flowers in a terminal spike; bracts and bracteoles large, conspicuous, colored; calyx lobes 5, equal; corolla narrowly hypocrateriform, upper lip minutely 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed; stamens 2, anthers 2-thecous; stigma subcapitate. Capsule clavate; 4-seeded.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

Megaskepasma unspecified picture

Distribution

Megaskepasma world distribution map, present in Australia, Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:735-1
WFO ID wfo-4000023511
COL ID 5N2Q
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INPN ID 627810
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Megaskepasma Perenideboles

Lower taxons

Megaskepasma erythrochlamys