B. maynensis

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 Herbaceous, 3- 8 dm. high, glabrous. Stem simple, straight, succulent, decumbent and stoloniferous at base. Leaves erect, crowded at top of stem with lower ones deciduous, strongly asymmetric but straight, penninerved, oblanceolate, acuminate, cuneate, 10-28 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, serrulate, petioles 16-36 mm. long, stipules subpersistent, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, entire, 1-2 cm. long, dark brown. Cymes axillary, much exceeded by the leaves, diffuse, few-flowered, peduncles 25-40 mm. long. Bracts persistent, small, narrowly lanceolate. Pedicels 10-25 mm. long. Staminate tepals 4, acute, the outer ovate, 6-7 mm. long, the inner smaller, elliptic. Stamens numerous, subfree, anthers small, broadly obovoid, much shorter than the filaments. Pistillate tepals 5, lanceolate, acute, 4-7 mm. long. Styles 3, 2-parted, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae 2-parted. Capsule 14- 23 mm. long, rounded at base, truncate at apex, wings subequal, rounded or acute, 8- 12 mm. wide. - F.M. Neg. 7345; 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 Santiago-Zamora (''Oriente ''): to 0.3 m., flowers white; uplands west of Rio Upano, near Mendez, 1,750-2,500 ft., E-977.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Knesebeckia III
• Origin: America, Ecuador, Peru
• Originator: A.DC.
• Date of Origin: 1855