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Accession Data:

Cantua quercifolia Juss.

  • Common Name: pepiso
  • Family: Polemoniaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Peru, Boliva, n Chile

  • Description: Erect, branching shrub or small tree, 1.4–4 m tall, glandular villous throughout. Leaves alternate, the axillary shoots appearing fascicled prior to elongation, blades sub-coriaceous to soft and herbaceous, variable in size, 3–9.2 cm long, 1–4.0 cm broad, elliptic, lanceolate obovate, sinuate crenate, with an acute apex, cuneate at base, sessile (rarely clasping) to short petioled, the petiole 2–10 mm long, glandular villous. Inflorescences composed of few- to many-flowered, erect, cymose, corymbs, terminating lateral shoots. Peduncles variable in length, 1–8 mm long, erect, villous glandular. Calyx hyaline and herbaceous only along primary vasculature, tubular-campanulate, 1.8–2.6 cm long, more or less radially symmetric, tube 10–16 mm long, 4–8 mm in diameter, lobes 5, triangular-acute to attenuate, 8–12 mm long, 2–3 mm broad at base of lobe, external calyx glandular villous. Corolla salverform, 3.2–4.2 cm long, the tube 2.3–3.0 cm long, 4–8 mm in diameter, white, cream or yellow, glabrous, corolla lobes suborbicular to ovate, 10–11 mm long and 7.5–8.5 mm wide, white, margin not ciliate hairy; more or less radially symmetrical. Stamens exserted, adnate to and inserted well below the mid-tube, filaments 2.5–4.8 cm long, glabrous, white to cream in color, subequal in length; anthers versatile, cordate to sagittate, 3.5–7 mm long, yellow, pollen pantoporate, reticulate exine, with insulae (verrucae). Nectary disc cup-shaped, surrounding the lower ovary but free from it, 5-fluted, the basal region smooth, the upper region rough. Ovary glabrous, oblong to pyriform, 5–9 mm long, 1–4 mm wide at base, with about 10–12 ovules per locule; style simple, exserted, stigma lobes 1–5 mm long. Fruit an oblong, loculicidally dehiscing capsule, 1.0–2.0 cm long, with three valves. Seeds small, flattened, orbicilar to ovate, 3–5 mm long and 2–4 mm wide, with a more or less broad, encircling wing. 3
  • USDA Zone: 10b-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200201597
  • Source: Alan Prather, Michigan State University
  • Accession Date: 04-02-2002
  • Bench: 3303 - NEOB: East Bench SC
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 05-31-2018

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: asterids
  • Order: Ericales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Polemoniaceae
  • SubFamily: Cobaeoideae
  • Tribe: Cantueae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Bolivia / Ecuador / Peru / Chile North

References (external):

  1. Musial, Kathy; An Introduction to the Geography, Climate, and Flora of Chile; Pacific Horticulture, October 2011. Accessed 20 March 2015.
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 15 June 2015.
  3. Cantua quercifolia at Polemoniaceae: Systematics & Evolution. Accessed 2 September 2015.

data regenerated on Thu, 14 Jun 2018 14:31:48 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Polemoniaceae

Subfamily Cobaeoideae
Tribe Cantueae

  • Cantua quercifolia

Subfamily Cobaeoideae
Tribe Cobaeeae

  • Cobaea scandens

Subfamily Polemonioideae
Tribe Polemonieae

  • Polemonium viscosum
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