B. parviflora

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, 2-4 meters high. Trunk simple, slightly branched near top, 20-25 cm. in diameter. Branches spreading, 6 dm. long. Leaves palmate, subsymmetrical, shallowly or deeply 5-7-lobed with lobes sometimes subdivided, cordate at base, 2-6 dm. wide, finely serrate, subglabrous above, ferruginous-tomentose beneath, especially on the nerves, bearing cystoliths, petioles up to 6 dm. long, ferruginous-tomentose, stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, solitary, dioecious, cymose, many flowered, 2-6 dm. broad, peduncle 3-6 elm. long. Bracts minute, deciduous. Staminate tepals 4, elliptic or obovate, subequal, 3-4 mm. long. Stamens on a low torus, anthers elliptic. Pistillate tepals 5, elliptic, 4 mm. long. Styles 3, 2-branched, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae simple. Capsule 8 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, wings obcordate, cuneate-decurrent at base; 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''): plants to 4 m., flowers white; El Partidero, be­tween Rios Paute and Negro, eastern slope of the cordillera, valley of the Rios Negro and Chupianza (on the trail from Sevilla de Oro to Mendez), 2,100-3, 100 ft., E-1528. Plants 2-3 m., leaves seen to 0.75 m. in diameter (these immature), flowers white; Tambo Chontal to Tambo Consuelo, 5,700-8,000 ft., eastern slope of the cordillera, valley of the Rios Negro and Chupianza (on the trail from Se­villa de Oro to Mendez), E-1592.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Thick Stem
• Botanical Section: Pritzelia
• Origin: America, Colombia to Bolivia
• Originator: Poeppig & Endlicher, Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl.
• Date of Origin: 1835