Hippobroma longiflora

Hippobroma longiflora
Hippobroma longiflora
Systematics
Asterids Euasterids II Order : Astern-like (Asterales) Family : Bellflower family (Campanulaceae) Genre : Hippobroma Type : Hippobroma longiflora
Scientific name of the  genus
Hippobroma
G.Don
Scientific name of the  species
Hippobroma longiflora
(L.) G.Don

Hippobroma Longiflora is a plant from the family of the bell flower plants (Campanulaceae) and the sole species of the genus Hippobroma .

description

Hippobroma longiflora is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows upright or prostrate and reaches a height of up to 50 (rarely up to 90) centimeters. Their sessile leaves are elliptical to inverted-lanceolate, 10 to 20 (rarely from 5) centimeters long and 2 to 5 (from 1) centimeters wide and toothed alternately large and small.

The crown of the single flowers is white, occasionally nerved green , the bald corolla tube 5 to 13.5 centimeters long.

The fruits are 1.2 to 2 centimeters long, drooping capsules .

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 28.

distribution

The species comes from the West Indies , presumably Jamaica, but is now also widespread in Central and South America from Mexico to Peru and Brazil and in Asia as a neophyte.

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. 210. ISSN  0252-192X / ISBN 3-85474-072-7 , PDF on ZOBODAT

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hippobroma longiflora at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Hippobroma. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved February 13, 2018.

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