B. bracteosa

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 Erect caulescent herb, 3- 25 dm. high, glabrous, very variable. Leaves strongly oblique or transverse, broadly ovate, abruptly acuminate, cordate at base, rounded elsewhere, 7-13 cm. long, margin undulate, crenate-serrate, short-ciliate, petioles 3- 9 cm. long, stipules deciduous, ovate with a narrow mucronate apex. Cymes mostly terminal, densely or laxly many-flowered, peduncles 9- 17 cm. long. Bracts soon deciduous, the lowest broadly elliptic, 15 mm. long, entire, membranaceous. Pedicels very slender, 5-25 mm. long. Flowers rose. Staminate tepals 2, suborbicular, 8-13 mm. long. Stamens numerous, free, anthers oblong, equaling or exceeding the filaments, the connective produced. Pistillate tepals 2, 4-6 mm. long. Pistils 3, deeply 2-parted, the stigmas linear, spiral, continuous, placentae bilamellate, ovuliferous on all sides. Capsule 7- 14 mm. long, very unequally 3-winged, the largest wing ascending, ovate or subtriangular, obtuse, to 2 cm. wide.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Cyathocnemis
• Origin: America, Peru
• Originator: A.DC.
• Date of Origin: 1859