Hamelia patens Jacq.
EOL Text
Árbol o arbusto.
Habit: Shrub
Árbol pequeño o arbusto, de hasta 6 m de alto. Hojas simples, verticiladas, cada verticilo compuesto de 3 a 4 hojas, de 4 a 18 cm de largo por 2.2 a 7.8 cm de ancho, elípticas, ovado-elípticas u obovado-elípticas.
Flores hasta de 2.5 cm de largo, con la corola tubular de color rojo-anaranjado o roja, dispuestas en dicasios terminales o axilares, hasta de 4.5 cm de largo. Inflorescencias escorpioidesFrutos elipsoidales o globosos, hasta de 4 cm de largo, rojos pero tornándose negros cuando maduros, jugosos, el jugo color azul-negro como una especie de tinta.Isotype for Hamelia viridifolia Wernham
Catalog Number: US 472369
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. Tonduz
Year Collected: 1900
Locality: Nicoya, Costa Rica, Central America
- Isotype: Wernham, H. F. 1911. J. Bot. 49: 213.
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Isosyntype for Hamelia pedicellata Wernham
Catalog Number: US 532937
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): Herbert H. Smith
Year Collected: 1898
Locality: Santa Marta., Magdalena, Colombia, South America
Elevation (m): 610 to 610
- Isosyntype: Wernham, H. F. 1911. J. Bot. 49: 212.
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Localidad del tipo: República Dominicana
Depositario del tipo: P
Recolector del tipo: Jacquin (s.n)
The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
Florida and West Indies, south to Bolivia and Paraguay
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 37
Species With Barcodes: 1
Shrub to c. 4 m, or, less often, a small tree to 7 m. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3(-5), elliptic or ovate, petiolate. Corolla to 2 cm, scarlet to orange. Fruit c. 7 mm, ovoid, dark red or purple.
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