Taxon Details: Heliconia marginata (Griggs) Pittier
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Family:
Heliconiaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Heliconiaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Heliconia marginata (Griggs) Pittier
Heliconia marginata (Griggs) Pittier
Primary Citation:
Man. Pl. Usual. Venez. 299. 1926
Man. Pl. Usual. Venez. 299. 1926
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Common Names:
platanilla
platanilla
Description:
Author : John Kress, Xavier Cornejo & Reinaldo Aguilar.
Description: Musoid plant 2-3 m tall; pseudostem gray-green, 45-120 cm tall. Leafy shoots in groups of 20; petioles 45-90 cm, glabrous; blades to 120 x 25 cm, green to slightly glaucus abaxially, glabrous on both sides. Peduncles red and green, 35-60 cm, scurfy. Inflorescences pendulous, distichous to spiral, to 40 cm long, bearing 9-14 spathes per inflorescence, the spathe angle 90-120ยบ; axis flexuose, red, puberulous to scurfy; spathes red becoming yellow along margins, 7-9.5 x 4.5-5.5 cm, puberulous; floral bracts opaque, yellow and pink, 5-6 x 1.9-2 cm, persistent, puberulous to villous abaxially; pedicels pale yellow with pink striations, 1-1.3 cm long, puberulous. Flowers 7-15 per spathe; ovary pale yellow, 9-10 x 5-6 mm, glabrous; perianth yellow, 49-54 mm long, glabrous; free sepal strongly reflexed, the fused sepals with apices not reflexed; staminode white, 6-8 x 3-4 mm; stamens with anthers connivent inside apex of corolla tube or slightly flared outside outside perianth apex. Fruits glabrous.
Common names: Platanilla, platanillo (Spanish).
Distribution: Costa Rica to Bolivia from sea level to 500 m.
Ecology: It almost always occurs in dense stands in open swamps or standing water. This is one of the few truly aquatic species of the genus (Kress, 1984).
Phenology: This species has been observed flowering and fruiting nearly all the year (Kress, 1984).
Pollination: The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds (Kress, 2003).
Dispersal: The fruits are eaten by birds.
Taxonomic notes: This species is recognized by the small inflorescences with red and yellow spathes; stiff, erect leaf blades; and the aquatic habitat (Kress, 1984).
Conservation: Not recorded.
Uses: Cultivated as an ornamental.
Etymology: Not recorded.
Author : John Kress, Xavier Cornejo & Reinaldo Aguilar.
Description: Musoid plant 2-3 m tall; pseudostem gray-green, 45-120 cm tall. Leafy shoots in groups of 20; petioles 45-90 cm, glabrous; blades to 120 x 25 cm, green to slightly glaucus abaxially, glabrous on both sides. Peduncles red and green, 35-60 cm, scurfy. Inflorescences pendulous, distichous to spiral, to 40 cm long, bearing 9-14 spathes per inflorescence, the spathe angle 90-120ยบ; axis flexuose, red, puberulous to scurfy; spathes red becoming yellow along margins, 7-9.5 x 4.5-5.5 cm, puberulous; floral bracts opaque, yellow and pink, 5-6 x 1.9-2 cm, persistent, puberulous to villous abaxially; pedicels pale yellow with pink striations, 1-1.3 cm long, puberulous. Flowers 7-15 per spathe; ovary pale yellow, 9-10 x 5-6 mm, glabrous; perianth yellow, 49-54 mm long, glabrous; free sepal strongly reflexed, the fused sepals with apices not reflexed; staminode white, 6-8 x 3-4 mm; stamens with anthers connivent inside apex of corolla tube or slightly flared outside outside perianth apex. Fruits glabrous.
Common names: Platanilla, platanillo (Spanish).
Distribution: Costa Rica to Bolivia from sea level to 500 m.
Ecology: It almost always occurs in dense stands in open swamps or standing water. This is one of the few truly aquatic species of the genus (Kress, 1984).
Phenology: This species has been observed flowering and fruiting nearly all the year (Kress, 1984).
Pollination: The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds (Kress, 2003).
Dispersal: The fruits are eaten by birds.
Taxonomic notes: This species is recognized by the small inflorescences with red and yellow spathes; stiff, erect leaf blades; and the aquatic habitat (Kress, 1984).
Conservation: Not recorded.
Uses: Cultivated as an ornamental.
Etymology: Not recorded.