Buforrestia candolleana C.B.Clarke
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Authority
Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
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Family
Commelinaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Stems prostrate, strongly ribbed when dry, rooting at nodes, with ascendent, leafy branches. Leaves spirally arranged; sheath 1 cm long, very lax, striate, glabrous to naked eye, puberulous-scabrous under magnification; blade narrowly oblong or obovate-oblong, gradually narrowed into petiole, glabrous, (5)8.5-18 X 2-6 cm, distinctly acuminate at apex, abaxial surface lighter green than adaxial surface. Inflorescences 4-6 cm long, axillary, perforating sheaths of subtending bracts, either sessile (in Saul collections) or distinctly pedunculate, few-flowered, afterwards bearing one or two fruits; cincinni subsessile, arranged in racemes or panicles with small (<5 mm long) bracts. Flowers: sepals subequal, ca. 10 X 4 mm, elongating to 35 mm in fruit, ovate-oblong when young, linear-lanceolate when mature, becoming erect and accrescent, greenish white to green; petals white, much shorter than sepals, upper oblanceolate, the lower one ovate, cupshaped; lower, outer stamens with filaments longer than inner ones, the anther thecae oblong, parallel, curved; ovary sessile, white, glabrous, tapering to short, recurved, white style, with 5 or 6 ovules per locule. Fruits 9-17 X 4 mm, trivalved, stipitate and pointed, surrounded by accrescent sepals, greenish white. Seeds 4-6 per locule, with prominent rugulose blue-gray reticulation, the hilum linear; embryo small. Fl (Mar, Apr); in non-flooded forest, often on rocks along streams.
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Distribution
Fl (Mar, Apr); in non-flooded forest, often on rocks along streams.
French Guiana South America|