B. maurandiae

Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden, 1900- v. 8 1952-1954: Page: 36-40 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/150964 Azuay: plants scrambling on bank; the eastern Cordillera, 1-8 km. north of the village of Sevilla de Oro, 8,000-9,000 ft., E-4269. Climbing epiphyte; bracts pale green; sepals basally crimson, white band near apex, tip green; ''petals'' (inner pair) externally crimson, internally pink. Same locality, E04430. Santiago-Zamora (''Oriente''): epiphyte, leaves dark green above, nitid, pale and subnitid below, petioles and peduncles red, outer perianth segments reddish or greenish with red veins, inner segments crimson, anthers yellow-green, only staminate flowers seen; Tambo Consuelo to Tambo Cerro Negro, eastern slope of the cordillera, valley of the Rios Negro and Chupianza on the trail from Sevilla de Oro to Men­dez, 8,000-9,000 fto, E-1606. Plant climbing, much-branched; leaves deep green, subnitid above, pale green nitid below; ovary green in flower and immature fruit; mature fruit dead-brown; perianth segments pale green; species apparently dioe­cious (see also no. 4981 for specimen from this region; between Tambo Consuelo and Tambo Cerro Negro, eastern slopes of the cordillera, valley of the Rio Negro, down to the Rio Pailas on the trail to Mendez), 8,500-9,500 ft., Francisco Prieto, E-49740
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Trailing-Scandent
• Botanical Section: Gobenia
• Origin: America, Colombia, Ecuador
• Originator: A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4.
• Date of Origin: 1859