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 Photo# 13327 Specimen# R2974 Cheilocostus/Hellenia lacerus Smithsonian #2001-073
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 Photo# 13263 Specimen# R2974 Cheilocostus/Hellenia lacerus Smithsonian #2001-073
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 Photo# 13266 Specimen# R2974 Cheilocostus/Hellenia lacerus Smithsonian #2001-073
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Botanical Description for this Species
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Descriptions used for plant identification key are shown in BOLD. Plant Part | General | Color | Hairs | Texture | Shape | Length | Width |
Rhizome |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 20 cm |
Sheath |
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| hirsute when young to glabrescent, apex ciliate
| | | 0 to 0 cm | 15 to 30 mm |
Ligule | margins decaying into arachnoid fibres
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| | obliquely rounded
| 1 to 3 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Petiole |
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| densely pub. to villose
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| 0 to 10 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Leaf | subsessile
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| elliptic or lanceolate-oblong | 20 to 46 cm | 7 to 15 cm |
...upper | |
| glabrescent
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...under | |
| hirsute, densely puberulous
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...base | |
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| attenuate, rounded to cordate
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...apex | | | | | acute to shortly acuminate
| 0 to 0 mm | |
Inflorescence | terminal on leafy stem
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| ovoid
| 4 to 11 cm | 4 to 7 cm |
Bract | apex breaking into fiber, margins arachnoid fibers | red
| glabrous to densely puberulous or villose
| coriaceous to chartaceous
| ovate or broadly ovate | 2.0 to 5.0 cm | 1.0 to 2.0 cm |
Appendage | | |
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| | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Bracteole | margins strongly decaying into arachnoid fibers
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| glabrous to densely villose
| | ovate
| 0.8 to 1.7 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Flower | | pink | |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Calyx | split to base on one side, apex 3 toothed | yellow (Maas= red) | hirsute at apex
| dilacerating into fibers
| mostly bicarinate on adaxial side
| 2.0 to 2.9 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Corolla | tube 1.5 cm, | white | glabrous
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| lobes oblong
| 3.5 to 5.0 cm | 1.0 to 2.5 cm |
Labellum | margin crisped
| pink (Maas=white tinged with yellow in mid & apex)
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| trumpet shaped
| 6.0 to 9.0 cm | 6.0 to 9.0 cm |
Stamen | apex convex
| white |
| | oblong
| 0.0 to 5.0 cm | 0.6 to 1.2 cm |