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: 793831

    Occurrence ID: bc5b63b6-26dd-47eb-a584-f067ff17ce94

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Myrtales

  • Family

    Melastomataceae

  • All Determinations

    Tococa desiliens Gleason det H. A. Gleason, 1945

L. H. Bailey Hortorium (BH) Systematic Revision ofTococa
Tococa desiliens Gleason
Fabián A. Michelangeli	Nov. 1999
British G-uiana Forest Department - New York Botanical Garden
Plants of the Kaieteur Plateau, British Guiana
No. 25295
Tococa desiliens Gleas’on
Det* H.A.Gleason, 19^5
Rare; shrub to 4 m. high, 2—5 ©»• diameter,
open-crowned; petals part pink, part white,
calyx truncate, anthers white, filaments pink
young fruit green; from Terminalia forest:
nASnrIp OOIM savanna s.
D. B. Fanshawk	_a .
Expedition financed in part by\idfrom the American Philosophical
Society, the John Simon Guggenheim, Memorial Foundation
and Mr. Pierre Jay
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