Anemopaegma huachianum Rusby
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Authority
Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.
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Family
Bignoniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Branchlets slender, minutely muricate with very small lenticels, otherwise glabrous. Leaflets 2, nearly equal and similar. Petioles to 2 cm. long, slender, the petiolules mostly a littleshorter. Blades to 1 dm. long, and 5 cm. wide, lanceolate, lightly cordate, acute, thickish, deep-green, the slender venation sharply prominent on both sides, more so beneath. Secondaries 8 to 10 on each side, widely spreading, little curved, forking to interconnect at a considerable distance from the margin, connected by a fine and strong anastomosis of the veins. Panicles axillary and terminal, small and few-flowered, the peduncles longer or shorter than the leaves, the branches very minutely puberulent. Pedicel 4- to 5-angled, ;") mm. long. Calyx 6 or 7 mm. long and broad, campanulate, thickish, loosely enclosing the corolla, the margin sinuate and bearing 5 minute teeth. Corollatube proper exceeding the calyx by 2 or 3 mm., the expanded portion about 2 cm. long, the lobes very large and widely spreading. Stamens unequal, the longer ones reaching nearly to the base of the corolla lobes, the others o mm. shorter, the thecae horizontal, the connective not nracronate. Disk annular, 1 mm. high. Style shorter than the shorter stamens, the stigmas oval, broad. Fruit not collected.
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Distribution
Huachi, 1,800 feet, 0. E. White, September 2, 1921 (no. 943). "A high climber in deep woods, the flowers developing in the sunshine at the top. Flowers light orange-yellow, very handsome, and slightly fragrant."
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