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Unresolved name

Centropogon berterianus (Spreng.) DC.

Comprehensive Description

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Centropogon berterianus (Spreng.) A. DC. in DC. Prodr 7:345. 1839.
T.ohelia Berleriana Spreng. Syst. 1: 712. 1825.
Lobelia scandens Bert.; Spreng. Syst. 1: 712, as syn. 1825.
Siphocampylus Berlerianus G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 703. 1834.
Terrestrial, glabrous throughout, herbaceous or slightly woody at base, the stems simple, erect or straggling, up to 5 mm. in diameter at base, up to 60 cm. high; leaves cauline, 25 or fewer, spreading, membranaceous, the blades ovate, rounded at base, gradually attenuate at tip, 2-5 cm. wide by 5-12 cm. long (the upper ones slightly smaller), usually 2-2.5 times as long as wide, on slender petioles 1-3 cm. long, the margins serrate or crenate (sometimes coarsely toothed), beset with 3-5 slender callose teeth per cm.; inflorescence few-27 cm. long, the few-12 flowers widely separated, in the axils of the upper leaves; pedicels spreading and flexuous, about 0.5 mm. in diameter, 20-53 ram. long in fruit, ebracteolate; flower 3-3.5 cm. long, including hypanthium; corolla (when dry) purplish-red, the tube 18-20 mm. long, straight and narrow, the proximal third (the part to which the filaments are fused) cylindric, about I mm. in diameter, the remainder broader, narrowly funnel-form or cylindric, its maximum diameter about 3 mm., the lobes linear or lanceolate, acute, scarcely curved, the two upper ones 1-2 mm. wide at base, 5-6 mm. long, the three other lobes similar, slightly shorter ; filament-tube 18.5-21 mm. long, glabrous, the proximal third of the filaments distinct and fused to the coroUa-tube; anther-tube 3.5-4.0 mm. long, the anthers glabrous or with a few stiff hairs on the backs, the two shorter anthers densely white-tufted at tips; hypanthium in anthesis campanulate, in fruit becoming subglobose; fruit a scarcely inflated, dry (?) berry 5-7 mm. in diameter; calyxlobes narrowly triangtUar or subulate, somewhat dilated at base, obscurely toothed, acute to attenuate, 2-4 mm. long; seeds oblong, somewhat flattened, conspicuously foveate-reticulate, about 0.6 mm. long, little longer than broad.
Type locality: Guadeloupe.
Distribution: Mountains of Dominica and Guadeloupe, mostly at elevations of 600-1100 m.
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Rogers McVaugh. 1943. CAMPANULALES; CAMPANULACEAE; LOBELIOIDEAE. North American flora. vol 32A(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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