Schlegelia dressleri A.H.Gentry

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Schlegeliaceae > Schlegelia

Characteristics

9.0-13 mm wide, drying dark brown, glabrous with scattered plate-shaped glands; corolla white, tubular-campanulate, 5.4-6.2 cm long and 1.4-1.8 cm wide at the mouth, the tube 4.3-4.8 cm long, the lobes 0.8-1.1 cm long, minutely lepidote outside near the base, otherwise glabrous, inside the lobes glabrous apically, becoming pubescent near the base with glandular lepidote trichomes merging into the glandular-puberulous trichomes of the upper third of the tube, lower part of the tube glabrous except for simple, multicellular, gland-tipped trichomes at the level of stamen insertion; stamens didynamous, the anther thecae divergent, 3 mm long and 1.5-2.0 mm wide, the longer fila-ments 2.6-2.7 cm long, shorter filaments 2.0-2.1 cm long, the staminode 5 mm long, inserted 18-19 mm from the base of the tube; pistil 0.9 cm long, the ovary globose, 6 mm long and 6-7 mm wide, inconspicuously puberulous, the ovules multiseriate on 2 stalked parietal placentae in the upper 1 mm of ovary, these fused below so placentation is mostly axile with a single parietal placenta in each locule. Fruit unknown.
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Vine, the stem without phloem arms in cross section; branchlets terete, rough-barked, lenticellate, without interpetiolar ridges or glandular fields. Leaves opposite or ternate, simple, elliptic,'rounded at both ends, 30-45 cm long and 11-20 cm wide, extremely coriaceous, bullate, secondary veins 6-7 on a side, the main veins impressed above, conspicuously raised beneath, densely minute lepidote above and beneath, otherwise glabrous, with plate-shaped glands near base of the midvein beneath, drying olive, the petiole 2.4-3 cm long, lepidote, rough-barked. Inflorescence to 20-flowered, a contracted raceme 2-2.5 cm long subtended by a fascicle of subulate basal bracts, borne on older stems, the rachis and pedicels more or less lepidote and puberulous, each pedicel subtended by a light-drying subulate bract, 2-5 mm long, the pedicels 1.2-2.2 cm long. Flowers with the calyx cupular, truncate, 9-14 mm long and
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Distribution

Schlegelia dressleri world distribution map, present in Ecuador and Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:229554-2
WFO ID wfo-0000779542
COL ID 4VDRR
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Synonyms

Schlegelia dressleri