Aphelandra parviflora Leonard

Aphelandra parviflora Leonard

Aphelandra parviflora Leonard, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 25: 439. 1935; Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 31:153. 1953.

Herbs 25–35 cm high; stems ascending, rooting at the lower nodes, strigose; leaves usually several, the blades oblong, to 25 cm long and 18 cm wide, elliptic, obtuse, cuneate at base, decurrent on the petioles, entire or undulate, purple beneath, sparingly strigillose, except the costa and lateral veins (15–18 pairs), these strigose; petioles slender, to 6 cm long, strigillose; spikes slender, to 13 cm long, about 1 cm in diameter, the peduncles to 12 cm long, strigose, bearing a pair of bractlike leaves about 2 cm below the base of the spike; bracts green, rather loosely imbricate, erect-spreading, elliptic, 1 cm long, 3.5–4 mm wide, acuminate, ending in an obtuse tip, firm, veiny, sparingly strigose, bearing on each side several erect-spreading teeth to 1.5 mm long; bractlets lance-subulate, 3.5 mm long, 1 mm wide at base, thin, subhyaline, nerved; calyx segments narrowly oblong, acuminate, subequal, 5–6 mm long, the posterior one 2 mm wide, the anterior pair 1.5 mm wide, the lateral pair 1 mm wide, all subhyaline, striate-nerved, glandularciliolate; corolla pale yellow, 1–1.5 cm long, obliquely funnel-form, sparingly puberulent, the tube 1 mm broad at base, about 4 mm broad at mouth, the limb about 8 mm broad, the lips equal, the upper one 2-lobed, 5.4 mm wide, the lower 3-lobed, the lobes orbicular, 4.5 mm in diameter; stamens included.

TYPE.—A. E. Lawrance 201 (holotype K, US photo, isotypes MO, NY, US), Colombia, Boyacá, in region of Mount Chapón, 100 m NW of Bogotá, 1050 m alt, 10 Jun 1932.

DISTRIBUTION.—Known only from the typelocality.

Aphelandra parviflora là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Ô rô. Loài này được Leonard mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1935.