Comprehensive Description
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fornecido por North American Flora
Echinodorus muricatus Griseb. Bonplandia 6 : 11. 1858
Echinodorus macrophyllus muricatus Micheli, in DC. Monog. Phan. 3 : 50. 1881.
Leaf-blades orbicular-ovate or orbicular-reniform, mostly 3-4 dm. long, sometimes larger, obtuse at the apex, 13-1 7veined, cordate at the base ; petioles elongate, muricate, as is the leaf-blade ; scapes 1 m. tall or more, widely paniculate, the floral whorls remote, lax; bracts lanceolate; pedicels 1.5-2.5 cm. long; sepals broadly ovate to suborbicular, 5-6 mm. long, spreading at maturity ; petals white, twice or thrice as long as the sepals ; achenes about 3 mm. long, falcate, the body narrowed to both ends, the beak flat, broad, shorter than the body.
Type locality : Panama.
Distribution : Panama and northern South America.
- citação bibliográfica
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg, Norman Taylor, Nathaniel Lord Britton, John Kunkel Small, George Valentine Nash. 1909. PANDANALES-POALES; TYPHACEAE, SPARGANACEAE, ELODEACEAE, HYDROCHARITACEAE, ZANNICHELLIACEAE, ZOSTERACEAE, CYMODOCEACEAE, NAIADACEAE, LILAEACEAE, SCHEUCHZERIACEAE, ALISMACEAE, BUTOMACEAE, POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
