B. udisilvestris
Higher elevation plant that requires moist conditions. Plants glabrous, erect; leaves long-petiolate, the blades oblong-ovate, as much as 11 cm. long, long-acuminate, unequal and cordate at the base, serrulate, palmate-nerved; cymes axillary, shorter. than the petioles, the pedicels 1 cm. long or more; staminate sepals 2 and 5 mm. long; pistillate flowers 3-lobate; capsule 1 cm. long or more, attenuate into a slender beak, the rather obtuse angles very narrowly winged.
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- Classification: Species
- Plant Type: Shrub-like
- Botanical Section: Parietoplacentalia
- Origin: America, Guatemala to Nicaragua
- Originator: C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect.
- Date of Origin: 1919
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