Madagascar

Madagascar (mg)

Antsiranana

SAVA

Antalaha. "Macolline", at the mouth of the Ankavanana River. Disturbed coastal forest.

P.B. Phillipson

6500

2015-5-18

40

14° 52' 24.996'' S ; 50° 15' 37.008'' E

-14.87361 ; 50.26028

Slender cauliflorous tree to 5 m. Trunk up to 10 cm dbh, well-branched above. Flowering exceptionally prolific on the trunk, occasionally with smaller infl. at the ends of the branches. Infl. highly contracted, but producing up to 50 + flowers. Flowers protandrous; calyx ascending to patent, pale green, sometimes tinged with dull purple, the lower lobes slightly spreading; corolla white, narrowly tubular with reflexed lobes; tube arching, stamens exserted and eventually recurved, the filaments adnate to the tube, the free part white below and purple-red above; anthers pale green; pollen mauve; style mauve; stigma lobes green. Locally abundant due to the development of extensive suckers arising from the roots at a distance from a parent plant.