Hippobroma longiflora

Hippobroma longiflora

Hippobroma longiflora is a plant from the family of the bellflower family ( Campanulaceae ) and the only species of the genus Hippobroma.

Description

Hippobroma longiflora is a perennial, herbaceous plant that grows erect or decumbent and a plant height of up to 50 (rarely to 90) achieved centimeters. Your sessile leaves are elliptic to reverse- lanceolate, 10 to 20 serrated (rarely over 5 ) inches long and 2 to 5 (from 1) inch wide and alternately large and small.

The crown of the solitary flower is white, sometimes greenish nerviert, the bald corolla tube 5 to 13.5 inches long.

The fruits are 1.2 to 2 inches long, droopy capsules.

Dissemination

The species probably comes from the West Indies, but is now also widely used in Central and South America from Mexico to Peru and Brazil.

Evidence

  • Anton Weber, Werner Huber, Anton Weiss Hofer, Nelson Zamora, Georg Zimmermann: An Introductory Field Guide To The Flowering Plants Of The Golfo Dulce Rain Forests of Costa Rica, Stapfia 78, 2001, p 210 ISSN 0252 - 192X / ISBN 3-85474 -072-7
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