Callisia fragrans
Callisia fragrans
Callisia fragrans is a species of the genus Callisia in the family of Commelina family ( Commelinaceae ). The specific epithet fragrans comes from Latin and means, fragrant '.
Description
Callisia fragrans is a robust perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the stature heights of up to 1.5 meters. Flowering shoots are bromeliad -like, powerful and equipped with nearly rosettigen leaves. You are branched sparse. From the lower nodes arise long, rather slender, two lines leafy stolons. The leaves of flowering shoots are up to 30 inches long and 7 inches wide. They are bright light green, narrowly elliptic - lanceolate, pointed, almost amplexicaul and bare in the rule.
The sweeping inflorescence is terminal panicles with crowded branches. The sedentary, paired wraps are worn by papierigen, up to 2 cm long bracts. The almost sessile, small flowers are fragrant. Their bristly sepals are 3.5 to 5 mm long and 1.5 to 2 millimeters wide. The spreading, lanceolate to ovate, white petals have no surface lamina. They are 5-6 mm long and 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters wide. The six outstanding long, white stamens are more prominent than the petals. Your connectives are membranous. The scar is brush-like.
Systematics and distribution
Callisia fragrans is widespread in Mexico from Tamaulipas to Yucatán.
The first description as Spironema fragrans by John Lindley was published in 1758. Robert Everard Woodson put the type in 1942 in the genus Callisia. A synonym is Rectanthera fragrans ( Lindl. ) O.Deg. ( 1932).
A cultivar with pale striped foliage leaves is called ' Melnickoff '.