Mendoncia lindavii Rusby

• Authority

  Wasshausen, Dieter C. & Wood, John R. I. 2004. Acanthaceae of Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 49: 1-152.

• Family

  Mendonciaceae

• Scientific Name

  Mendoncia lindavii Rusby

• Type

  Type: Bolivia, Cochabamba, Yungas, Bang 532 (holotype NY; isotypes BM, US-58339). Fig. 21.

• Description

  Description - Suffrutescent vine; stem angled or grooved, ferruginous-pilose; leaves petiolate, blades ovate to broadly oval, 5-10 x 2-5.5 cm, firm, scabrid, pilosulous above, velvety ferruginous-pilose below, margin entire; inflorescence axillary; flowers 1 or 2, pedicellate; pedicels ferruginous-pilose; bracteoles green, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 30-40 x 10 mm, ferruginous-pilose, awn-tipped apically; calyx inconspicuous; corolla red, 40-50 mm long, limb subequally 5-lobed. lobes 4-5 mm long, entire; fruit oblong-obovate, strongly compressed, brown-puberulent.