Frosted Cyrtandra (Cyrtandra pruinosa)
Description
Leaves opposite, borne on upper 2-4 nodes, those of a pair unequal, slightly asymmetrical, chartaceous, ovate to ovate-elliptic, ca. 15-20 cm long, 3-9 cm wide, upper surface sparsely covered with white, hemispherical, subsessile glands, more densely so when young, lower surface moderately puberulent, margins serrate, apex acuminate, constricted to a long-attenuate base, petioles 1.5-8 cm long. Flowers solitary, arising in the leaf axils, sparsely covered with subsessile glands and also with a few scattered hairs, peduncles 9-20 mm long, pedicels 14-20 mm long, elongating to 20-27 mm long in fruit, bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, 10-18 mm long, deciduous; calyx nearly actinomorphic, green(-) when fresh, 12-14 mm long, enlarging up to ca. 21 mm long after anthesis, cleft nearly to base, the lobes foliaceous, elliptic-ovate, sparsely covered with subsessile glands, becoming glabrate; corolla white, tube subcylindrical, nearly straight, ca. 17 mm long, ca. 5 mm in diameter medially, flaring at mouth, sparsely covered with subsessile glands, upper lobes suborbicular-cordate, ca. 3.5-4.5 mm long, 4.5-6.5 mm wide, lower lobes suborbicular, ca. 7 mm long, ca. 7-8 mm wide; ovary glabrous; style 4-6 mm long, covered with subsessile glands.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Lamiales
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Family: Gesneriaceae
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Genus: Cyrtandra
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