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Clidemia saulensis Wurdack

Specimen

MNHN-P-P05289906
AME (America)

Taxonomy

Melastomataceae
Clidemia saulensis Wurdack

Origin

Saül. La Fumée Mountain. La Fumée Ouest - Région de
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C. Gracie
1988-6-13
200 -300
300
3° 37' 0.012'' N ; 53° 12' 0'' O
Shrub to 2 m. Stems with tan, dark-tipped non glandular hairs. Leaves with 7 main veins, red-violet hairs on petioles, under surface of veins and margins of young leaves. Inflorescences on stems beneath leaves and in leaf axils. Sparsely branched inflorescence sap to 6cm long. Flower; gamopetalous, narrow calyx, green with red glandular hairs and 4 acute red lobes. Gamopetalous white corolla with 4 translucent acute lobes with magenta at bases, slightly reflexed. 10 white stamens with white rugose anthers in pairs. Straight greenish white style with fussy-looking stigma

Determination history

operation de numerisation 2010-2012
Gracie 1988