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Odontadenia puncticulosa (Richard) Pulle

Comprehensive Description ( Anglèis )

fornì da North American Flora
Odontadenia schippii Woodson, Ann. Mo. Bot
Gard. 22:292. 1935.
Fruticose liana, as much as 19 meters long; leaves opposite, firmly membranaceous, broadly elliptic to oval, 6.5-12 cm. long, 3-5.5 cm. broad, shortly and obtusely acuminate, obtuse at the base, wholly glabrous, somewhat lustrous above, the petioles 10-15 mm. long; inflorescence both terminal and opposite-axillary, thyrsiform, about as long as the leaves or somewhat longer, bearing several conspicuous creamy-white flowers; pedicels 20-25 mm. long, puberulentpapillate; calyx-lobes manifestly unequal, the outer broadly ovate, obtuse or rounded, 5-6 mm. long, coriaceous, densely and minutely puberulent-papillate externally, the inner broadly oblong, obtuse or rounded, 9-10 mm. long, sparsely puberulent within; corolla infundibuliform, glabrous externally, the tube proper 15-17 mutn. long, 3.5-4 mm. in diameter at the base, the throat tubular-conic, 25-27 mm. long, about 5-6 mm. in diameter at the orifice, the lobes obliquely and broadly dolabriform, 13-15 mm. long, spreading; anthers inserted at the inflation of the corolla-tube, minutely hirtellous dorsally; nectaries about thrice longer than the ovary, concrescent throughout; follicles unknown. Type i^ocality: Camp 36, Guatemala-British Honduras survey, British Honduras; alt. 840 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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sitassion bibliogràfica
Robert Everard Woodson, Jr. 1938. (ASCLEPIADALES); APOCYNACEAE. North American flora. vol 29(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY