Comprehensive Description
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Aphelandra ornata (Nees) T. Anderson
Aphelandra ornata (Nees) T. Anderson, Journ. Bot. 2:289. 1864.—Morren in Belg. Hort. 15:33. 1965 [pro basionym, non sensu Anderson].
Stenandrium venatum Nees in Martius, Fl. Bras. 9:79. 1847 [errore typographico loco ornatum], in de Candolle, Prodr. 11:291. 1847.
Lagochilium ornatum (Nees) Nees in de Candolle, Prodr. 11:291. 1847.
Aphelandra ornata (Nees) Lindau in Engler and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 4, Abt. 3b:322. 1895.
Aphelandra venosa Wasshausen & Smith in Reitz, Fl. Ilustr. Catar. 1, Fasc. ACAN: 76. 1969.
Small decumbent herb or shrub, the reclining portion rooting, the erect portion to 50 cm high; stem subquadrangular, the upper portion strigose, the hairs about 0.75 mm long, yellowish, the lower portion glabrous; leaf blades oblong-elliptic, 5–9 cm long and 2–3.5 cm wide, obtusely acute, gradually narrowed at base, entire or faintly undulate, firm, both surfaces glabrous except the costa and lateral veins (7–9 pairs), these strigose, the costa and veins of the upper surface bordered with a narrow band of yellow, the lower surface green but lighter than the upper; petioles to 2 cm long, strigose; flowers borne in 1–3 terminal, sessile spikes, these 3–4 cm long, 2–2.5 cm wide (without flowers), the bracts closely appressed, the rachis glabrous; bracts ovate, conduplicate, slightly recurved, 15–20 mm long, 12–15 mm wide, mucronulate, cuneate at base, the costa and margins sparingly ciliate, otherwise glabrous, serrate-dentate, the teeth (6–14 on each side) triangular, sharply pointed, about 0.5 mm long, reticulate-nerved, green or whitish; bractlets small, lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, 0.5 mm wide just below the middle, acute, striate-nerved, subhaline, ciliate; calyx 5–7 mm long, the segments subequal, lanceolate, striatenerved, subhyaline, ciliolate, the posterior segment 1.5 mm wide, acute, ending in a stiff bristlelike awn, the anterior pair slightly narrower, the lateral pair 1 mm wide, both anterior and lateral pairs aristate; corolla yellow, 3 cm long, sparingly glandular pilosulous, 2 mm wide at base, the tube narrow, 1.5 cm long, the throat obconical, 6 mm wide at mouth, the upper lip obovate, 8 mm long and 7 mm wide, bifid, the lobes 3 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, obtuse, the lower lip 3-lobed, the lobes subequal, the middle lobe obovate, 8 mm long, 7.5 mm wide, obtuse, the lateral lobes elliptic, 9 mm long, 5 mm wide, obtuse; stamens included, barely exceeding the mouth of the corolla; anthers 3 mm long, acute, rounded at base, glabrous; filaments epipetalous, flattened, glabrous; ovary sparsely pubescent; mature capsule not seen.
TYPE.—Sellow s.n. (holotype B, destroyed), Brazil.
DISTRIBUTION.—Southeastern coastal Brazil, in the states of São Paulo, Paraná, and Santa Catarina. BRAZIL. São paulo: Santos, Sororocaba, 20 Feb 1875, Mosén 3200 (S); 1 Feb 1875, Mosén 3201 (S); Santos, hill at beach, 19 Jan 1913, Brade 6048 (S); Piassaguera (Santos), mata, May 1913, Toledo s.n. (RB); Santos, Sororocaba, 18 Jul 1901, Hemmendorff 480 (S). PARANÁ: Antonina, Estr. Cacatu-Serra Negra, 23 Mar 1966, Hatschbach 14115 (K, US); Serra do Mar, Pôrto de Cima, 12 Sep 1910, Dusén 10261 (S); Serra do Mar, Pôrto de Cima, 2 Jan 1914, Dusén 14306 (GH); Pôrto de Cima, 17 Mar 1914, Jönsson 52a (K, LE, US); Jacareí, 11 Aug. 1915, Dusén 17112 (GH); Paranaguá, Serra da Prata, 150 m alt, 26 Dec 1962, Hatschbach 9620 (US); Serra da Prata, 5 Mar 1911, Dusén 11478 (S); Serra da Prata, 20 Jul 1914, Dusén 15304 (S); Serra da Prata, 100 m alt, 4 Dec 1909, Dusén 8631 (S). SANTA CATARINA: São Francisco do Sul, mata, Porto das Canoas, 2 m alt, 21 Feb 1952, Smith & Reitz 5718 (US); in humid places, São Francisco. Mar 1885, Ule 324 (HBG).
LOCAL NAME.—Balsamo-de-lista.
- 書目引用
- Wasshausen, Dieter C. 1975. "The genus Aphelandra (Acanthaceae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-157. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.18
