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Dorstenia brasiliensis
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Section |
Emygdioa |
Dorstenia brasiliensis
Photo courtesy of Natalia Villanova |
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Type
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Herb |
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Body |
Stem underground, 4-15 mm thick, at least partly
tuberous. |
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Height |
low |
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Leaves |
Wide ovate to elliptic leaves, dark green, thin
in structure, 1,5-18 x 1-7 cm. |
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Flowers |
Green or the flowering face brown to purplish,
cup-shaped, 0,5-3 cm in diameter, no appendages. |
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Reproduction |
Seed |
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Area |
From N Argentina and Uruguay to e. Peru, E
Colombia, E Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana and French Guyana;
In relatively moist places, in cerrado and savanjna vegetation;
At altitudes up to 2800 m (in Bolivia). |
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Taxonomical details |
D. brasiliensis Lamarck, Encycl. Bot. 2:
317. 1786. D. amazonica Carauta, Valente & Barth (1979);
D. brasiliensis fo. balansae Chodat & Vischer
(1920); D. brasiliensis var. guaranitica Chodat &
vischer (1920); D. brasisliensis var. major Chodat
(1903); D. brasiliensis var. palustris Hassler
(1919); D. brasiliensis var. tomentosa (Fischer &
Meyer) Hassler (1919); D. brasiliensis var. tubicina
(Ruiz & Pavón) Chodat & Vischer (1920); D. heringeri
Carauta & Valente (1975); D. infundibuliformis Loddiges
(1833); D. montana Herzog (1915); D. montevidensis
Fielding & Gardner (1843); D. pernambucana Aruda da
Cámara (1810); D. sabanensis Cuatrecasas (1956b); D.
schulzii carauta, Valente & Araujo (1976); D. tubinica
Ruíz & Pavón (1798); D. tubinica (var. genuina) fo.
major (Chodat) Hassler (1919); D. tubinica var.
opifera (Martius) Hassler fo. subexentrica Hassler
(1919). |
Dorstenia brasiliensis, photo courtesy of Natalia Villanova Dorstenia brasiliensis, authors collection
Dorstenia brasiliensis, photo courtesy of Natalia Villanova
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