Conostegia superba (Conostegia superba)
Description
Conostegia is a genus of plants of the Melastomataceae family with roughly 107 species. It is native to America. They are trees or shrubs; with terete to sub-square distal twigs, variously hairy to glabrous. Leaves mostly 5-25 cm. Flowers 4-12 cm. Stamens 8-52 cm, 2-6 times or more the number of petals, isomorphic and glabrous; anthers linear-oblong or subulate, typically yellow, mostly laterally compressed, with a single terminal or ventral-terminal pore, the connective ones neither appendiculate nor prolonged. Stigma pointed to truncate or capitate, sometimes forming a broadly pelted ring of laterally flattened wolves. Ovary 4-25 cm, completely inferior, the glabrous apex slightly raised and frequently elongated to form a cone and / or a collar that surrounds the base of the style. Abayado fruit; seeds obovoid or irregularly pyramidal, smooth or rarely rough and slightly angular. completely inferior, the glabrous apex slightly raised and frequently elongated to form a cone and / or a collar that surrounds the base of the style.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Myrtales
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Family: Melastomataceae
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Genus: Conostegia
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