Thunbergia grandiflora Roxb.
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Authority
Wasshausen, Dieter C. & Wood, John R. I. 2004. Acanthaceae of Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 49: 1-152.
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Family
Acanthaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type: picture in Bot. Reg. 6:495 (1820), neotype selected by Wood (1994).
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Description
Description - Woody vine; stern subquadrate to quadrate-sulcate, pubescent; leaves petiolate, blades ovate to subcircular, 11.5-15 x 5.3-13.5 mm, pustulate and pubescent, cordate basally, margin coarsely and irregularly angular lobed below middle; inflorescence of many-flowered pedunculate dichasiate thyrses from leaf axils; bracteoles often coherent on posterior side, ovate-elliptic to obovate, 34-47 x 16-22 mm, pubescent, truncate at base; calyx annular, unlobed; corolla light purple or white with yellowish throat, 62-80 mm long, glabrous, limb subactinomorphic, lobes subregular, subelliptic, apically subtruncate; anthers appendaged basally; capsule not seen.