Lycianthes fasciculata (Rusby) Bitter

The New York Botanical Garden
Plants of BOLIVIA
Solanaceae Lycianthes fasciculata (Rusby) Bitter
det.M. Nee, 2011
Depto. SANTA Cruz, Prov. Florida, along what was the
old horse and mule trail (in Theodore Herzog’s time, 1911),
between El Palo and Mataral, 1 km ESE of El Palo, and 0.4
km WSW of jet. of Vallegrande road and main highway in
Mataral.
18°06’55’S, 64° 13’07”W. alt. 1385 m.
Slight slopes and bottom of valley, grazed thom scrub with
Neoraimondia herzogiana, Pereskia sacharosa, Cereus
comarapanns, Cappctris speciosa and edges of cultivated
fields on flat.
Weak shrub, to 3 m. high when scrambling through other
shrubs. Flowers lightly fragrant (10:40 A.M., cloudy
bright). The flower face held vertically or slightly above the
vertical, the stamens arching upwards below the stigma.
Corolla rotate, white, with yellow star in center and orange
anthers.
Coll.: M. Nee & J. M. Mendoza F. 57729 7 Jan. 2011
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