Rhynchanthera grandiflora (Aubl.) DC.

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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Plants of Panama
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Veraguas Province. Grassy roadside depressions and
adjoining pastures off of the Panamerican Highway ca.
30 km W of Santiago.
Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Petals 5, purple-magenta, each with
a narrow white band at the very base. Staminodia
filamentous, purple basally but white distally, 5 in
number and opposite the petals. Stamens 5, opposite
the calyx lobes and declined to one side of the flower,
one with markedly compressed and prolonged connective;
filaments and connective purple; anthers darker purple
with white rostra. Locally very common.
100m
F.	Almeda 6162
G.	de Nevers, G. McPherson
12 January 1989