Mendoncia puberula Mart.
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Authority
Leonard, Emery C. 1951. The Acanthaceae of Colombia, I. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 31: 1-117.
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Family
Mendonciaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Suffrutescent vines; stems quadrangular, the young branches densely hirsute, the older ones more or less hirsute to glabrate, the tips cirrose; leaf blades elliptic-ovate, elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, up to 11.5 cm. long and 8.5 cm. wide but usually smaller, acuminate, more or less rounded or short-attenuate at base, the costa and lateral veins (5 or 6 pairs) prominent, the upper leaf surface hirsute or glabrescent, the hairs sometimes arising from star-shaped bases, the lower surface, at least the larger veins, hirsute; flowers 1 or 2, borne in the arils of the leaves, the pedicels 1 to 3 cm. long, more or less hirsute, the hairs spreading; bracts oblong-elliptic, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 1 to 1.3 cm. wide, the tip obtuse or rounded, mucronate, densely hirsute with spreading hairs or sometimes hirtose-pubescent, the hairs about 1 mm. long, the inner surface glabrous; calyx annular, about 0.5 mm, long, glabrous corolla 2.2 to 3.7 cm, long, glabrous; anthers 8 mm, long, filaments (free portion) about 3 mm. long. glabrous; drupe lenticular, compressed, ovate, 1.6 cm. long and 1 cm. in diameter, glabrous.
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Discussion
No Colombian specimens were examined. The description was compiled from that of Turrill. Martius states in his description of Mendozia puberula that the corolla was white with blue or purple spotted markings on the limb. Turrill cites Kalbreyer's specimen (No. 830) collected at Salazar, Santander, Colombia.