Cyphomandra betacea (Cav.) Sendtn.
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Authority
Popenoe, Wilson. 1924. Economic fruit-bearing plants of Ecuador. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-ix, 101-134. pl. 34-49.
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Family
Solanaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Stemless, 5-15 dm. high; leaves numerous, sheaths suborbicular, 1 cm. in diameter, pale, glabrous, blades dimorphic, some reduced to short dark pectinate-serrate spines, others foliaceous, linear, filiform-acuminate, 5-10 dm. long, deciduous, entire except for the persistent base, white-flocculose beneath becoming glabrous; scape straight, very slender; scape-bracts erect, very narrowly triangular, all but the uppermost exceeding the internodes, flocculose becoming glabrous; inflorescence many-flowered, 20-35 cm, long, sparsely whito-flocculose; flowers subspreading; pedicels slender, 3-6 mm. long; sepals linear-triangular, long-acuminate, 22 mm. long, carinate, yellow at base; petals 4 cm. long, equaling the stamens, acuminate, white, appendaged; ovary more than ¾ superior; ovules caudate.