Ceratostema alatum
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Ceratostema alatum is a species of plant in the heather family from Ecuador and Colombia . It occurs up to an altitude of about 4000 meters in the vegetation of the Páramo .
description
Ceratostema alatum grows as a shrub up to 1.5–3 meters high, rarely also as an epiphyte .
The simple, short-stalked leaves are thick-leather and bare. The almost bare leaf stalk is up to 5 millimeters long. The rounded to pointed leaves are notched or finely sawn away on the often slightly bent, finely glandular-haired edge. They are elliptical to egg-shaped, up to 5–6 inches long and 3–3.5 inches wide.
Axillary, small and racemose , bald inflorescences with up to 7 flowers are formed. The drooping, red, glossy and stalked, hermaphrodite, five-fold flowers with a double inflorescence are up to about 6 centimeters long. There are small bracts and bracts. The small, broad and thick-ribbed, reddish, fleshy and cup-shaped flower cup with 5 small, pointed, broad-egg-shaped calyx lobes (limb) stands on the thick, up to 2.5 cm long flower stalk with a "joint". The fleshy, pentagonal and bald crown is slightly inflated at the base, thickened and then ribbed and conical, conically tapering with, in the upper half, spreading, narrowly ovoid lobes. The ovary is lean at the time, but rigid with a long, slightly conical and bare, slightly protruding, partly reddish stylus with a very small, capitate scar . There are 10 free, unequal long, enclosed stamens in two circles with very short stamens. The long anthers have a slightly shorter, hollow and less flexible awn at the top, a thin tube (tubules) that opens at the top with an oblique, small pore. The awns are close together in the upper part. There is a discus .
Small, up to 1.5–2 centimeters in size, somewhat flattened and rounded, reddish, shiny berries are formed.
use
The slightly sweet fruits are edible.
literature
- K. Kubitzki : The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. VI: Flowering Plants Dicotyledons , Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-642-05714-4 , p. 187.
Web links
- Ceratostema alatum at NYBG (further description and pictures at Scientific Name).
- Ceratostema alatum at Useful Tropical Plants.