B. glauca

Flora of Peru. by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, Ill. Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] v. 13: pt. 4: no.1 (1941): Page 181- 202 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19800 Shrubby, glabrous. Branches subsimple, woody at base, subflexuous, even. Leaves oblique or transverse, ovate, acuminate, deeply cordate at base with one side broadly rounded, palminerved with the longest side penninerved, pale beneath, margin undulate, remotely denticulate, eciliate, petioles 2.5-5 cm. long, stipules deciduous, ovate-oblong, obtuse or mucronate, 16- 20 mm. long. Cymes dichotomous, 4- 5 times 'branched, diffuse, peduncle axillary, 5 cm. long, exceeded by the leaves. Bracts deciduous, the lower ones not known, the upper 2 mm. long, elliptic. Pedicels 10- 13 mm. long. Staminate tepals 2, suborbicular, 6 mm. long. Stamens on a torus. Pistillate tepals 2, ovate. Capsule orbicular with subequal rounded wings, 8-10 mm. long.- F. M; Neg. 7341.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Ruizopavonia
• Origin: America, Peru
• Originator: (Klotzsch) Ruiz & Pavon ex A. de Candolle, Prodr.
• Date of Origin: 1864