Drymonia campbellii 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
Gesneriaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Leaves sparingly and shortly strigose. Stems stout but weak, reclining or somewhat climbing, red, the branches short and stout. Leaves opposite, the slender petioles 1.5 to 3 cm. long, the blades 8 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. wide, oval and somewhat oblique, acute at the base and abruptly short-acuminate and acute at the summit, irregularly and shallowly sinuate-dentate, very thin, bright-green above, pale beneath, the venation sparse and very slightly prominent beneath, the secondaries 5 or 6 on a side, falcately ascending. Peduncles solitary in the axils, slender, mostly shorter than their petioles. Calyx-lobes moderately unequal, triangular-ovate, short-acuminate and acute, somewhat oblique, entire or nearly so, foliaceous, thin, the largest 3 cm. long, more than 2 cm. broad. "Corolla white externally, brown within,'' larger than the calyx, the lobes broadly obovate, crenate.
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Discussion
Species dedicated to Mr. Milton Campbell, President of the H. K. Mulford Company, through whose generous interest the Mulford Exploration was made possible.
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Distribution
Rurrenabaque, 1,000 feet, M. Cardenas, November 22, 1921 (no. 1755).
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