Campsidium valdivianum (Phil.) W.Bull

  • Authority

    Gentry, Alwyn H. 1992. Bignoniaceae--part II (Tribe Tecomeae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 25: 1-370. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bignoniaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Campsidium valdivianum (Phil.) W.Bull

  • Type

    Type. Chile. Valdivia, Philippi s.n. (lectotype, BM; isotypes, M, UPS (as 209), W, F negative 32880).

  • Synonyms

    Tecoma valdiviana Phil., Campsidium chilense Reissek & Seem., Tecomaria valdiviana (Phil.) Kraenzl.

  • Description

    Species Description - Liana to 2.5 cm diam., the branchlets irregularly subtetragonal, glabrous except for a few minute lepidote scales. Leaves 5-17-foliolate, the leaflets entire or slightly serrate toward apex, sessile, elliptic, rounded to subacute at apex, rounded or asymmetrically cuneate at base, 0.8-3.7 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, chartaceous, scattered lepidote with reddish scales above and below, otherwise glabrous, the rachis marginate to very narrowly winged; petiole 1-3 cm long, inconspicuously lepidote, otherwise glabrous. Inflorescence a few-flowered terminal raceme, glabrous or very slightly lepidote. Flowers with the calyx campanulate, evenly 5-dentate with 2-3 mm long triangular subapiculate teeth, 6-12 mm long, 7-9 mm wide, glabrous except for a few inconspicuous lepidote scales; corolla red, tubular, slightly constricted at apex, 3-3.5 cm long, 0.5-0.8 cm wide at mouth of tube, the tube 2.5-3 cm long, the lobes 0.3-0.5 cm long, tube glabrous outside and inside except at stamen insertion, the lobes ciliate and puberulous inside with short moniliform trichomes; stamens subexserted, the thecae parallel, not divergent, partially fused to filament apex, 4-5 mm long, glabrous, the connective slightly extended; pistil 3-3.5 cm long, the ovary ovate, 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, somewhat glandular-papillose, otherwise glabrous; disk very thinly cupular, 1 mm long, 1.5 mm wide. Fruit a narrowly ellipsoid capsule, stipitate, obtuse to subacuminate at apex, the calyx persistent, 5.5-8.5 cm long, 2.3-3 cm wide, slightly and inconspicuously lepidote, otherwise glabrous; seeds thin, elliptic, 7-10 mm long, 12-15 mm wide, the small seed body sharply demarcated from and surrounded by the brownish-veined hyaline-membranaceous wing.

  • Discussion

    I have not attempted to examine all collections of this extratropical species, nor is its distribution mapped here.

  • Common Names

    Pilipil-voque, pilpilovqui bianco, voqui bianco, voqui-bejuco

  • Distribution

    Valdivian region of Chile and southern Argentina; 0-800 m elevation.

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