Chichicaste grandis
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Chichicaste grandis is a plant from the family of loasaceae (Loasaceae) and the only species of genus Chichicaste .
description
These are upright, weakly branched and short-lived herbs that can grow up to 4 meters high and are covered with nettle hair. The lower leaves are opposite, the upper alternate, the leaf blades are egg-shaped with a slightly lobed and furrowed edge.
The inflorescences are terminal and thyrsenic , the paracladia are monochasial or rarely dichasial. In front of the upright individual flowers are two bracts . The flowers are five-fold, the boat-shaped petals green to creamy white. The outer staminodes are fused and form a white scale sheet ( nectar scale ), the tip of which ends in three to four triangular lobes.
The fruit is a medium-sized, almost round capsule . The seeds have a reticulate outer skin.
distribution
Chichicaste grandis is found in the rainforests of the lowlands from Costa Rica to northwestern Colombia.
Systematics
The species was first described in 1927 as Loasa grandis by Paul Carpenter Standley . In 1997 and 2006, as part of extensive systematic work on the family, Maximilian Weigend placed it in its own genre. The generic name is the common name for Loasa species in parts of Central America.
The species is classified in the subfamily Loasoideae , Tribe Loaseae , its exact position in it is still unclear.
Others
The Mayan city of Chichicastenango in the Guatemalan highlands is named after the nettle plant.
literature
- Maximilian Weigend: Loasaceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants . Volume 6: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-06512-1 , pp. 248 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
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Individual evidence
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