Mendoncia aspera Ruiz & Pav.
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Authority
Leonard, Emery C. 1951. The Acanthaceae of Colombia, I. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 31: 1-117.
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Family
Mendonciaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Stem appressed-pubescent; leaf blades elliptic, 5 to 12 cm. long, 3 to 6.5 cm. wide, acuminate at apex (usually tipped by a mucro 1 to 4 mm. long), rounded or narrowed at base, appressed-pubescent above, becoming scabrous with age, the hairs about 0.5 mm. long, each one arising from a stellate base, the lower surface rather densely and softly appressed-pubescent, the hairs yellowish, up to 1 mm. long; flowers 1 to 3 in each axil; pedicels 2 to 6 cm. long, appressed-pubescent; bracts oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 3.5 cm. long, 1.2 to 1.5 cm. wide, often subfalcate, acute at apex, tipped by a short mucro, rounded at base, densely and softly sericeous, the hairs yellowish brown, closely appressed or ascending; corolla, bright red, 3.5 cm. long, the throat about 4 mm. broad; ovary puberulent; style glabrous; fruit deep purple, 1.5 cm. long, 10 mm. broad, somewhat compressed, sparingly puberulous.