Prestonia wedelii Woodson
  • Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 29: 365 (1942)


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Prestonia wedelii Woodson. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000283142. Accessed on: 05 Jun 2023'

General Information

Lianas, the stems pubescent, the hairs pale brown. Leaves ? elliptic, acute- acuminate, rounded to shallowly cordate basally, to 19 cm long and 10 cm wide, pubescent on both surfaces, more so on the veins beneath, chartaceous to membranaceous; petioles to 1 cm long, several gland-like stipules present. Inflor- escences corymbose, dichotomous, axillary, the peduncles 2-3 cm long, the bracts apparently absent. Flowers with the pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm long, densely pubescent; bracteoles narrowly-lanceolate, ca. 1 cm lo-ng; -alyx-lobes oblong-ovate, ca. 27- 35 mm long, pubescent on both surfaces, bearing 1 deltoid squamella within; corolla subinfundibuliform, cream-white, pubescent externally, without epistam- inal appendages, the annulus ridged and unevenly lobed, the tube ca. 20-25 mm long, the narrowly conic throat ca. 7-9 mm long; stamens included, the fila- ments free for 3-4 mm, the anthers ca. 3-4 mm long; nectary 5-lobed, sur- passing the ovary at anthesis. Follicles separate, stout, pubescent, mature size un- known; seeds unknown.

  • Provided by: [B].Flora de Panama
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    Habit

    Lianas

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    Distribution

    Apparently only from Chiriqui Lagoon in Panama.

  • Provided by: [B].Flora de Panama
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     Information From

    Apocynaceae
    http://www.worldfloraonline.org/organisation/Apocynaceae
    World Flora Online Data. 2022.
    • A CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).
    Flora de Panama
    http://www.tropicos.org/Project/PAC
    Robert E. Woodson, Jr. and Robert W. Schery Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden Vol. 67, No. 4 (1980), pp. ii-xxxiii
    • B Missouri Botanical Garden