Brazil

Brazil (br)

Serra do Sincora, ca 15km NW of Mucugé on the road to Guiné & Palmeiras.

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R.M. Harley

G.L. Bromley, A.M. de Carvalho & G. Martinelli

20980

1980-3-26

1300 -1500

1500

13° 40' 0.012'' S ; 44° 25' 0.012'' O

-13.66667 ; -44.41667

Fleshy stemmed herb to ca. 40 cm. Sems green, erect. Underround parts white, fleshy. Leaves small fleshy attenuate towards the white base positioned vertically, with the obovate lamina green appressed to ground. Bracts & pedicels purplish-tinged. Corolla pale bluish purple with slightly darker spur. Two small lemon-yellow inverted triangular spots on boss of lower lip, each surrounded by a blue green margin.

Sandstone serra with campo rupestre vegetation with small streams, marsh & rock outcrops. This plant growing in wetter parts of marsh at higher altitudes.