''Aegiphila panamensis'' is a species of
flowering plant in the family
Lamiaceae
The Lamiaceae ( )
or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil, mint, rosemary, sage, savory ...
.
[França, F. and A. M. Giulietti. (2012)]
Lectotypifications, neotypifications, and epitypification in the genus ''Aegiphila'' Jacq.
''Neodiversity'' 6 1-14. It is native to the Americas, its distribution extending from
Mexico to
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
.
Description
The species has elliptic leaf blades long by wide on
petioles up to long. The
inflorescence is a
panicle
A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...
of flowers. Each flower has a fuzzy, tubular, cream or yellowish corolla just under a centimeter long.
References
panamensis
Flora of Central America
Flora of Mexico
Flora of Colombia
Vulnerable plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Plants described in 1931
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