Heliconia colgantea
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Heliconia colgantea is a species ofthe Heliconia family (Heliconiaceae). It is native to southern Central America.
description
Heliconia colgantea is an evergreen, perennial, herbaceous plant , vegetatively similar to a banana plant and with a height of 2 to 3.5 meters. There are six green leaves per shoot , the longest being up to 140 centimeters long and 20 centimeters wide.
The up to 70 centimeters long inflorescences hang down, each inflorescence has seven to eleven spirally arranged, pink to rose-red bracts , the middle one is dark pink on the outside at the base, light at the extreme end and slightly hairy.
Each coil consists of 15 to 20 flowers , the flower envelope is yellow and hairy, the fruits slightly hairy.
distribution
Heliconia colgantea is native to Costa Rica and Panama.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described in 1979 by Gilbert S. Daniels and the ornithologist F. Gary Stiles .
literature
- Anton Weber, Werner Huber, Anton Weissenhofer, Nelson Zamora, Georg Zimmermann: An Introductory Field Guide To The Flowering Plants Of The Golfo Dulce Rain Forests Costa Rica. In: Stapfia. Volume 78, Linz 2001, p. 139, ISSN 0252-192X / ISBN 3854740727 , PDF on ZOBODAT
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Heliconia colgantea. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved April 22, 2020.
