Heliconia stilesii
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Heliconia stilesii is a species ofthe Heliconia family (Heliconiaceae). It is native to Costa Rica and Panama.
description
Heliconia stilesii is an evergreen, perennial, herbaceous plant , vegetatively similar to a banana plant and with a height of 5 to 6 meters. There are four to six often white waxy leaves underneath per shoot . The longest leaf per shoot is up to 230 centimeters long and 55 centimeters wide.
The up to 100 centimeters long inflorescences hang down, each inflorescence is arranged in two lines and often touching each other, twenty to thirty-five bracts . Each coil consists of 10 to 20 flowers , the flower envelope is white to pale yellow at the base, but bright yellow towards the extreme end. The edge is hairless to slightly hairy.
distribution
Heliconia stilesii is endemic to Costa Rica and western Panama.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described in 1982 by Walter John Emil Kress .
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. 140, ISSN 0252-192X / ISBN 3854740727 , PDF on ZOBODAT
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Heliconia stilesii. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved August 10, 2018.