Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Colignonia parviflora (H. B. K.) Endl. Gen. PL 311. 1837
Abronia parviflora H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 216. 1817. Trier atus parvifiorus Spreng. Syst. 1: 536. 1825.
Plants herbaceous, glabrous, the branches 2 meters long or less, slender or stout, brownish or yellowish, striate; leaves numerous, often pseudo-verticillate, the petioles equaling or half longer than the blades; leaf-blades, broadly ovate to ovate-orbicular, 3-4.5 cm. long, 2.8-4.5 cm. wide, broadly rounded at both ends, entire, paler beneath; flowers umbellulate, the umbellules opposite in the axils or subumbellately arranged at the ends of the branches, densely many-flowered; pedicels 2-3 mm. long; perianth 3 mm. long, white, subangulate, the lobes elliptic to obovateoblong, rounded at the apex; stamens 5; ovary subglobose, the style equaling the ovary, the stigma densely branched.
Type locality: Near Querchu in the Andes of Colombia. Distribution: Panama and Colombia.
- bibliographic citation
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1918. (CHENOPODIALES); ALLIONIACEAE. North American flora. vol 21(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
