Tococa desiliens Gleason

  • Filed As

    Melastomataceae
    Tococa desiliens Gleason

  • Collector(s)

    B. Maguire 23293 with Fanshawe, D. B., 8 May 1944

  • Location

    Guyana. Kaieteur.

  • Habitat

    Savanna.

  • Description

    Phenology of specimen: Fruit.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 793829

    Occurrence ID: 98e04612-7a87-46bc-b45e-a311dce9b91f

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Myrtales

  • Family

    Melastomataceae

  • All Determinations

    Tococa desiliens Gleason det H. A. Gleason, 1945

Department - New York Botanical Garden
Plants of the Kaieteur Plateau, British Guiana
No. 25295
Tococa desiliens (Jleason
Det. H. A. Gleason, 19^5
Rare; shrub to 4 m.fhigh, 2—5 cm* diameter,
open-crownedj petals part white, part pinkj
calyx truncate, anthers white, filaments pink;
BAssiXW&iftti*1* green; from Terminalia forest;
D. B. Fanshawe savanna 8»___May 8, 1944
Expedition financed in part by aid from the American Philosophical
Society, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
and Mr. Pierre Jay
dissected and drawn
BY H. A GtEASON
<^>IMAGED
NEWYORK BOTANICAL GARDFN
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L. H. Bailey Hortorium (BH) Systematic Revision of Tococa
Tococa desiliens Gleason
Fabiàn A. Michelangeli	Nov. 1999
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