B. viridiflora var. viridiflora

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, glabrous. Branches even. Leaves obliquely ovate, acuminate, cordate at base with one lobe broadly rounded and undulate, remotely denticulate, stipules deciduous, lance-ovate, mucronulate, 10 mm. long and 5 mm. wide in the single deformed one known. Peduncle about equaling the leaves, inflorescence dichotomously much-branched. Bracts deciduous, the upper ones elliptic, 3 mm. long. Pedicels 18-24 mm. long. Staminate tepals 2, broadly elliptic, 2 mm. long and 3 mm. wide in the bud. Pistillate tepals 2 (?), narrowly obovate, cuneate. Styles 3, deciduous only at maturity, short-connate, 4- 5 mm. long, deeply bifid, the branches subdivided and verrucose toward apex, bearing stigmatic papillae throughout, placentae bilamellate, ovuliferous on all sides. Capsule 12 mm. long, 16-18 mm. wide, subtriangular, obtuse at base, truncate at apex, the largest wing ovate, the other two marginiform, much smaller.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Ruizopavonia
• Origin: America, Peru
• Originator: A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4.
• Date of Origin: 1859