B. rossmanniae

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 Scandent(?) shrub, glabrous. Leaves but slightly asymmetric, elliptic, acuminate, rounded at base, penninerved, serrate, ciliate, 6-9 cm. long, petioles 4-15 mm. long, stipules deciduous, oblong, acuminate, 3- 10 mm. long. Cymes terminal, 4- 12-flowered, peduncle 2 cm. long. Lower bracts large, membranaceous, red, fugacious. Flowers rose to brick red. Pedicels 15 mm. long. Staminate tepals 2, broadly ovate, 6-8 mm. long. Stamens free, anthers elliptic, obtuse, shorter than the filaments, the connective produced. Bracts below the pistillate flowers persistent, accrescent, suborbicular, cordate, exceeding the ovary. Pistillate tepals 2, broadly ovate. Styles 3, 2-parted, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae bilamellate. Capsule with 2 very small wings, the third subascending, oblong, 20-36 mm. long.- F.M. Neg. 20860; 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 erect to 1 m., leaves deep green above, paler below, perianth and fruit deep orange red; Yucal region, above the Rio Paute, about 5 km. west of Mendez, 2,400 ft., Jorgensen, E-9430 Epiphytic climb­ing vine, leaves deep green above, pale below, flowers cream with greenish tinge, fruit becoming brownish at full maturity; ridge ascending into central Cutucu, 2,600 ft., Cordillera Cutucu, ca. 8 ° 40' S., 78 ° W., F. Prieto, E-1132.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Rossmannia
• Origin: America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• Originator: A. de Candolle, Prodr.
• Date of Origin: 1864