Comprehensive Description
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Stemmadenia glabra Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 124. 1845
Shrub or small tree, 2-10 m. tall, essentially glabrous throughout; leaves firmly membranaceous, oblong-elliptic to obovateelliptic, 14-20 cm. long, 7-8 cm. broad, obtuse to shortly subcaudateacuminate, obtuse at the base, the petioles 5-10 mm. long; infiorescence bearing 1-4 handsome cream-colored flowers; pedicels 9-13 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate, acute to obtusish, 15-25 mm. long; corolla infundibuliform, the tube proper 20-25 mm. long, about 4 mm. in diameter at the base, the throat broadly conic, 18-20 mm. long, about 13 mm. in diameter at the orifice, the lobes obliquely obovate, spreading, 12-18 mm. long; follicles obovoid-subreniform, 4.5-5 cm. long, 2.5-3.5 cm. broad, longitudinally striate and minutely
verrucose.
Type locality: Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras.
Distribution: Honduras and Salvador to Costa Rica.
- bibliographic citation
- Robert Everard Woodson, Jr. 1938. (ASCLEPIADALES); APOCYNACEAE. North American flora. vol 29(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Tabernaemontana glabra: Brief Summary
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Tabernaemontana glabra is an evergreen tree from the family Apocynaceae, native to Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia). It is similar to Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii, except that its leaves and flowers are larger and its fruit is smaller.
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