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Colquhounia elegans Wall.
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Shrubs 1-3 m tall, ± decumbent, hairy throughout. Branches densely hirsute with retrorse rust-colored hairs. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic, 4.5-8.5 × 2-4 cm, papery, hirsute, densely so abaxially, adaxially finely bullate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin mucronate-crenulate, apex acuminate. Verticillasters few flowered, densely rust colored hirsute, in dense capitate inflorescences on branches; floral leaves short petiolate, ovate, 2-3 cm; bracteoles 2-3 mm. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Calyx 6-9 mm, teeth subulate-triangular to triangular, ca. 3 mm. Corolla yellow or red, ca. 2.5-2.8 cm, pubescent, tube slender, ca. 2.3 cm; upper lip erect, oblong, apex rounded or emarginate; lobes of lower lip ovate, subequal. Fl. Nov-Feb.
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Sunny thickets, forests; 1100-2000 m.
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Colquhounia elegans (秀丽火把花, xiu li huo ba hua) is a shrub species in the genus Colquhounia found in Asia (Yunnan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam).[2][3]
- Varieties[2]
- Colquhounia elegans var. elegans - Yunnan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Colquhounia elegans var. tenuiflora (Hook.f.) Prain - Yunnan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
References[edit]
- ^ George Bentham, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 65. 1830.
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 186 秀丽火把花 xiu li huo ba hua Colquhounia elegans Wallich ex Bentham, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 65. 1830.
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Yunnan [Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam].
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