Description ⁵

Plants perennial, glabrous, with vertical rootstock. Stems ascend-ing or erect, usually producing axillary shoots below 1st-order inflorescence or at proximal nodes, 40-60(-80) cm. Leaf blades deep olive green, with strongly prominent veins abaxially, linear-lanceolate, occasionally lanceolate, 5-12 × 1.5-4 cm, usually ca. 3.5-5 times as long as wide, widest near or below middle, thick, coriaceous, base cuneate or rounded-cuneate, margins entire to crenulate, undulate or crisped, flat, apex subobtuse or broadly acute. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, terminal usually occupying distal 1/ 3 of stem, lax, interrupted almost to top, usually broadly paniculate (branches simple or nearly so). Pedicels articulated in proximal 1/ 3 or almost near middle, filiform or slightly thickened, especially distally 3-6(-7) mm, not more than 2-2.5 times as long as inner tepals, articulation indistinctly swollen. Flowers 5-15 in whorls; inner tepals orbiculate, ovate-deltoid, or ovate-triangular, 3.5-4.5(-5) × 3-4(-4.5) mm, base truncate or rarely indistinctly cordate, margins entire, apex subacute; tubercles 3, equal or subequal, much narrower than inner tepals, free margins of inner tepals wider than or at least as wide as tubercle, verrucose to subglabrous. Achenes brown or dark reddish brown, 2.5-3 × 1.5-2 mm. 2n = 20.

Flowering/fruiting ⁶

Flowering spring-summer.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Bill Wright, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bill Wright
2. (c) grbfrog, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by grbfrog
3. (c) Eric Keith, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Eric Keith
4. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10073382
5. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4951592
6. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/19892047

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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