Aphelandra boyacensis Leonard

Aphelandra boyacensis Leonard

Aphelandra boyacensis Leonard, Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 31: 198. 1953.

Shrub 1–2 m high; stem to 5 cm in diameter at base, the branches strigose; leaf blades obovate, to 25 cm long and 12 cm wide, abruptly acuminate, narrowed at base to a short petiole 5 mm long, shallowly sinuate-dentate or entire, glabrous above or sparingly strigose, the lower surface densely strigose, the hairs about 1 mm long, the costa and lateral veins (6–12 pairs) rather prominent, more so than above; flowers borne in a subsessile terminal oblong-ovate spike about 7 cm long and 3.5 cm in diameter, the rachis sparingly strigose; bracts imbricate, entire, oblong-elliptic, 35 mm long, 17–18 mm wide (the uppermost smaller), acute to slightly obtuse (tipped by a mucro 0.5 mm long), thin, green, coarsely reticulate (the meshes open), pergamentaceous, glabrous except the costa, this sometimes sparingly pubescent; bractlets lanceolate, 2 cm long, 5 mm wide, glabrous, thin, veiny, each ending in a minute spine; calyx pale green, conical, the segments lanceolate, the posterior one about 15 mm long and 3.5 mm wide, the anterior pair slightly shorter and more narrowed, the lateral pair 13 mm long and 3.5 mm wide, all acute or acuminate and substriate; corolla pubescent without, about 3 cm long, very fragrant, creamish, the throat yellow, the lobes ovate to suborbicular, about 8 mm long; ovary glabrous; capsule not seen.

TYPE.—A. E. Lawrance 565 (holotype S, US photo 3637, isotypes MO, NY), Colombia, Boyaca, at El Humbo, 900 m alt, 7 Nov 1932.

DISTRIBUTION.—Known only from the typelocality.

Aphelandra boyacensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Ô rô. Loài này được Leonard mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1953.