B. lophoptera

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 Erect herb, over 3 dm. high. Stems rather stout, pilose. Leaves oblique, very broadly ovate, acute, subtruncate at base, palminerved with very short angular lobes, densely serrate, 6-10 cm. long, 5- 11 cm. wide, lustrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath, thin, petioles 3- 12 cm. long, villous, stipules narrowly ovate, 15-25 mm. long, denticulate. Peduncles suberect, 6-8 cm. long, hirsute-villous, scarlet, 8- 12-flowered. Bracts elliptic, denticulate. Flowers scarlet or white, hirsute-villous to nearly papillose outside. Staminate tepals 2, spreading, broadly elliptic, obtuse, 10-15 mm. long. Stamens on a globose torus, anthers linear, exceeding the filaments, the connective conspicuously produced. Pistillate tepals 2, broadly ovate, obtuse. Styles 3, deciduous, 2-parted, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae bilamellate. Capsule pendulous, hirsute-tuberculate, unequally 3-winged, the smaller wings triangular, subobtuse, 8 mm. long, the largest wing broadly oblong, 13 mm. long, thickish, its apex truncate, thickened, toothed and pilose.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Cyathocnemis
• Origin: America, Peru
• Originator: Rolfe
• Date of Origin: 1914