Gesneriaceae

• Region

  South America

• Country

  Colombia

• State/Province

  Antioquia

• County/Municipio

  San Luis Mun.

• Locality

  Reserva Natural Cañon de Rio Claro El Refugio. Quebrada la Mulata.

• Elevation

  Alt. 350 m. (1148 ft.)

• Coordinates

  5.9008, -74.8569

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Plants of Colombia
Gesneriaceae
Colombia. Dept: Antioquia. Municipio: San Luis. Reserva Natural Canon
del Rio Claro El Refugio. Quebrada la Mulata. Elevation: 350 m.
5°54'3"N 74°51'25"W. Terrestrial, 10 cm tall, strm horizontal, 4-6 mm
diain.. dark olive. Leaves congested in a terminal crown. Petioles sulcate,
olive green with reddish hairs. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, slightly
inaequilaterous, obtuse at apex, subcordate at the base 4-12 2.2-3.5 cm,
scmiglosy to velvety above, mate below, bicolor, glabrous above, with
reddish hair below. Inflorescense cimose, solitary or branched in pairs;
peduncle slender, less than 1 mm diam., 3-4 cm long, with red hairs.
Pedicel .4-2.2 cm long. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 0.6-1 cm long, 1 cm
wide, green with red hairs. Corolla tube 0.9-1.2 cm long at anthesis, white
outside, white with yellow inside the tube.
M.M. Mora 803	20 May 2009
Herbarium of the University of Alabama (UNA)
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