Calibrachoa macrodactylon
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Calibrachoa macrodactylon is a plant type from the genus Calibrachoa in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Calibrachoa macrodactylon is a small herbaceous plant or low subshrub with curved branches. The hair consists of a few, firm, glandular trichomes . The leaves are loosely distributed, are open and are almost the same size. The leaf blade is inversely lanceolate to spatulate, towards the front they are rounded to almost pointed, tapering to a point at the base. It reaches a length of 21 mm and a width of 7 mm.
The flowers stand on peduncles that are 4 mm long and bend back on the fruit and become up to 10 mm long. The calyx has a 2 to 3.5 mm long, narrow, inverted conical calyx tube, which is occupied with unevenly shaped, narrow triangular, blunt and 7 mm long calyx tips. The calyx enlarges on the fruit. The crown is funnel-shaped, 18 to 20 cm long, the corolla lobes are short and broadly rounded. The stamens are deep within the crown. The scar is disc-shaped and small.
distribution
The species is common in Brazil .
Botanical history
Calibrachoa macrodactylon was first described as Petunia macrodactylon in 1964 by Lyman Bradford Smith and Robert Jack Downs . The type specimen was collected on April 19, 1962 by Raulino Reitz and Klein near Curitibanos ( Santa Catarina / Brazil). In 1990 the species was assigned by HJW Wijsman as Calibrachoa macrodactylon of the genus Calibrachoa .
supporting documents
Lyman Bradford Smith and Robert Jack Downs: Notes on Solanaceae . In: Phytologia , Volume 10, Number 6, 1964. pp. 423-453.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Calibrachoa macrodactylon , entry at IPNI, accessed December 19, 2010