Triaspis dumeticola Launert

Author(s): 
Launert
Concept: 
E. Launert FZ 1963
Description: 
A small climber with younger steins and inflorescences greyish-sericeous or -pubescent, soon glabrescent. Leaves petiolate; lamina (3) 4.5-10 cm. long and (1.8 2.5 x 6 cm. broad, ovate, apex acute, base rounded to cordate, thickly herbaceous, usually glabrous on both surfaces, rarely sparsely hairy, dark green on the upper, bright green on the lower surface; petiole (1.2) 2-2.5 cm. long, subcanaliculate, slender, usually glabrous; stipules absent. Inflorescence loosely paniculate, axillary, many-flowered, open; peduncle 1.5-5 cm. long; bracts 1.5 mm. long, triangular-subulate, acute, pubescent or glabrous; bracteoles c. 1 mm. long, subulate. Flowers zygomorphic, c. 1.8 cm. in diam. Sepals c. 2.8 mm. long, ovate, ovate-oblong or broadly elliptic, usually glabrous, rarely somewhat hairy. Petals unguiculate, white with pink tinge, spreading or recurved; the lower one c. 8.8 mm. long, boat-shaped, fimbriate all along the margin, the others c. 8 mm. long, ovate or broadly elliptic, fimbriate at the lower half, rarely at the whole margin. Anthers +/- 2 mm. long, oblong; filaments 5-5.6 mm. long, glabrous. Ovary +/- densely sericeous; styles 3, c. 4.8 mm. long, glabrous, slightly curved outwards. Mature samara not known; dorsal wing crest-like or absent.
Family: 
Malpighiaceae
Source: 
FZ
dumeticola
A
Flora Taxon: 
Triaspis dumeticola Launert
Classification: 

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