Beloperone viridissima 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
Acanthaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Inflorescence, etc., pubescent with spreading hairs, the foliage bright-light-green, minutely and sparsely white puberulent, the stems pale-green, very leafy. Leaves 2 to 4 dm. or more long, 4 to 8 cm. broad, oval, obovate or oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate and acute, gradually tapering into a short margined petiole-like base, lightly and irregularly sinuate-dentate, thin, the midrib mostly channeled above, prominent beneath like the slender secondaries, which are 10 to 15 on a side, strongly falcate- ascending, lightly connecting almost at the margin, the connecting reticulation sparse and very slender. Panicles terminal, long-peduncled, ample, much-branched, the branches strongly ascending, mostly subtended by setaceous-linear bracts, like those of the sessile flowers, the floral bracts mostly a little more than half the length of the calyx. Calyx-tube cupulate, very short, the lobes about 5 mm. long, one a little larger, narrowly lancelinear and long-attenuate. Corolla-tube 2.5 cm. long, lightly curved, narrowly infundibular, the basal portion contracted. Lower lip 1.5 cm. long, narrow, minutely 3-toothed, the teeth obtuse. Upper lip a little shorter and much broader, concave. Stamens almost equaling the upper lip, the style exceeding it, obtuse. Fruit not seen.
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Distribution
Huachi, 1,800 feet, O. E. White, August 13, 1921 (no. 550).
Ecuador South America|