Tabernaemontana crysocarpa S.F.Blake

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Tabernaemontana

Characteristics

bracteoles 1 or 2, ovate, scarious, ca. 1-1.5 mm long; calyx-lobes ovate, ca. 1.6-2.2 mm long, each bearing 4-5 squamallae; corolla white to green-yellow, the tube 7-9 mm long, slightly constricted at the insertion of the stamens, the lobes oblong-dolabriform, ca. 8-10 mm long; stamens barely exserted, attached near the top of the corrolla tube, the anthers ca. 2-2.5 mm long, tinged with blue-green; nectary very shallow, annular, the stigma pentagonal and umbraculi-form.. Follicles ovoid-subreniform, stout, coarsely ruminate when dry, ca. 2.5-4 cm long; seeds numerous, naked.
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Shrubs, or small trees, to 10(-20) m, essentially glabrous. Leaves weakly obovate to elliptic, acuminate, obtuse basally, to 19 cm long and 8 cm wide, glabrous, chartaceous to ? membranaceous; petioles ca. 1-3 cm long, weakly perfoliate, mostly glandular in the axils. Inflorescences corymbose, pendant or lax, somewhat irregular, many-flowered, mostly axillary, the peduncle 3-13 cm long, the bracts apparently absent. Flowers with the pedicels ca. 7-15 mm long; 3The Panamanian collection was in flower only.
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Distribution

Tabernaemontana crysocarpa world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:82052-1
WFO ID wfo-0001072583
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Synonyms

Tabernaemontana crysocarpa