Marsdenia margaritaria R.C.Foster
  • Sargentia 8: 249 (1949)
  • cuingara cuinbara


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Marsdenia margaritaria R.C.Foster. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000371803. Accessed on: 11 Dec 2023'

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Woody vines. Stems glabrous when young, becoming corky and somewhat plated with age. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, basally cuneate to rounded, mostly glabrous, the margins revolute, 9-12 cm long and 3-4.5 cm wide; petioles 1.5-2 cm long. Inflorescences umbelliform, few- to several-flowered; peduncles 2-5 mm long; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Flowers greenish to brown; calyx lobes ovate, puberulent outside, glabrous inside, the margins ciliate, apically obtuse, ca. 2 mm long and 1.5 mm wide; corolla urceo- late, the tube 3-5 mm long, glabrous outside, inside with dense retrorse hairs opposite the anthers, the lobes ciliate, short pilose on the surface except for the region of overlap of adjacent lobes, ovate, obtuse, reflexed, ca. 2.5 mm long and nearly as wide; gynostegium ca. 2.5 mm high; corona lobes fleshy, broadly ovate, ca. 1-1.5 mm high, equally wide. Fruit not known.

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

    vines

  • Provided by: [B].Flora de Panama
    • Source: [
    • 1
    • ]. 
    Flora de PanamaHabit

    vines

    General Information

    Woody vines. Stems glabrous when young, becoming corky and somewhat plated with age. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, basally cuneate to rounded, mostly glabrous, the margins revolute, 9-12 cm long and 3-4.5 cm wide; petioles 1.5-2 cm long. Inflorescences umbelliform, few- to several-flowered; peduncles 2-5 mm long; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Flowers greenish to brown; calyx lobes ovate, puberulent outside, glabrous inside, the margins ciliate, apically obtuse, ca. 2 mm long and 1.5 mm wide; corolla urceo- late, the tube 3-5 mm long, glabrous outside, inside with dense retrorse hairs opposite the anthers, the lobes ciliate, short pilose on the surface except for the region of overlap of adjacent lobes, ovate, obtuse, reflexed, ca. 2.5 mm long and nearly as wide; gynostegium ca. 2.5 mm high; corona lobes fleshy, broadly ovate, ca. 1-1.5 mm high, equally wide. Fruit not known.

    Other Local Names

    NameLanguageCountry
    cuingara cuinbara

     Information From

    Apocynaceae
    https://about.worldfloraonline.org/tens/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