Filed As:
Melastomataceae
Clidemia saulensis Wurdack
Melastomataceae
Clidemia saulensis Wurdack
Location:
French Guiana. Saül, La Fumée Mountain, La Fumée Ouest. Alt. 200 - 300 m. (656 - 984 ft.)
French Guiana. Saül, La Fumée Mountain, La Fumée Ouest. Alt. 200 - 300 m. (656 - 984 ft.)
Description:
Shrub. Shrub to 2m. 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: gamosepalous, 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 fuzzy-looking stigma.
Shrub. Shrub to 2m. 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: gamosepalous, 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 fuzzy-looking stigma.
Habitat:
Non-flooded moist forest.
Non-flooded moist forest.
Other:
Specimen Notes: [Specimen located at US (barcode 00615140), and data courtesy of the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program of the Smithsonian Institution.]
Specimen Notes: [Specimen located at US (barcode 00615140), and data courtesy of the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program of the Smithsonian Institution.]
Identifiers:
GUID: 03cf1d8f-5c57-4ea9-a3b8-26792c662b2e
GUID: 03cf1d8f-5c57-4ea9-a3b8-26792c662b2e
Map:
Coordinates: (3.61667, -53.2)
Coordinates: (3.61667, -53.2)