Heliconia vaginalis
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Heliconia vaginalis is a species of plant fromthe Heliconia family (Heliconiaceae). It is widespread from Costa Rica to Colombia.
description
Heliconia vaginalis is a slender to clumsy, evergreen, perennial, herbaceous plant , vegetatively similar to a ginger or canna plant and with a height of 2 to 5 meters. There are eight to ten leaves per shoot . The longest leaf per shoot is up to 90 centimeters long and 17 centimeters wide.
The up to 21 cm long inflorescences are upright, the inflorescence five found spirally arranged to eight bracts . Each coil consists of eight to nineteen resupinate flowers , the flower shell is hairless and yellow, green towards the extreme end.
distribution
Heliconia vaginalis is found from Costa Rica to Colombia and north-western Ecuador.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described by George Bentham in 1846 .
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 vaginalis. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved August 10, 2018.
Web link
- Heliconia virginalis inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Ulloa Ulloa, C. & Pitman, N., 2004. Retrieved December 25, 2013.