''Sabicea brasiliensis'' is a species of woodvine in the family
Rubiaceae
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, and is native to
Brazil
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,
and also to
Bolivia
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[ There are no synonyms.]
Description
Wernham describes it as an erect shrub.[ However, Standley describes it as a "large, woody vine".][ According to Wernham, the upper surface of its leaves is densely hairy, and the leaves narrow gradually to their base, making them almost without a stalk.][ Standley, however, describes the leaves as being stalked, with densely white woolly matting on the undersurface, and covered in weak hairs on the upper surface.][ The flowers, too, are covered in a dense white woolly matting, and the inflorescence is a dense sessile head. The calyx lobes are triangular.][ The stamens are inserted at the mouth of the corolla tube, and both the ovary and stigma are 5-merous.][
Its type specimen]
k000172688
was collected in 1827 by William John Burchell
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References
External links
''Sabicea brasiliensis'' images and occurrence data
from GBIF
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brasiliensis
Plants described in 1914
Taxa named by Herbert Fuller Wernham
Flora of Brazil
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