Cestrum chiriquianum
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Cestrum chiriquianum is a plant species from the genus of the hammer bushes ( Cestrum ). It occurs in Panama and Costa Rica .
description
Cestrum chiriquianum is a slender shrub up to 3 m high . The bark of the young twigs is initially green, but later becomes straw-colored. The leaves are 7 to 12 cm long, elliptical and blunt or pointed at the base and tip. The leaf margins are slightly rolled up. The leaf blade is hairless, the veins become indistinct towards the edge. The leaf stalks are 1 to 1.5 cm long and closely winged. There are no smaller leaves.
The terminally standing panicle inflorescences contain a few, conspicuous flowers that stand on a slender, approximately 4 to 5 cm long inflorescence stalk. The flowers themselves stand on an approximately 1 mm long, hairless flower stalk. The calyx is 3 to 4 mm long, hairless and darkens when drying, the calyx tips are about 1 mm long, short triangular and hood-shaped. The blue-violet crown consists of a 17 to 19 mm long, hairless corolla tube, which is slender at the base and widens towards the top, so that it has a diameter of 5 mm at the tip. The calyx lobes are triangular and about 3 mm long. The stamens are of the same shape, the stamens have grown together to slightly above the center of the corolla tube, then about 5 mm are free. At the point of attachment they are clearly swollen and bent over to the knee. The anthers are round, measure 1 mm and are golden-brown. The ovary is at a glandular stem contains about ten ovules , the scar is about 2 mm over which the crown located in stamens addition.
Occurrence
This species occurs in Panama and Costa Rica .
swell
- WG D'Arcy: Family 170: Solanaceae . In: Robert E. Woodson, Jr., Robert W. Schery (Eds.): Flora of Panama , Part IX, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Volume 60, Number 3, 1973. Pages 573-780