Collection Details
Species: Codonanthe crassifolia (H. Focke) C.V. Morton
Collection Date: 16 February 2008
Determined By: J. L. Clark
Determination Date: 30 November 2007
Institution: UNA
Locality
Country: United States of America
Locality Description: Cultivated plant growing at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Florida (SEL Accession number: 1975-2531-A). Origin: Panama: Bocas del Toro.
Botanical Data
Plant Notes: Herb with elongate pendent shoots. Leaves succulent. Flowers held horizontally. Calyx green with red apices (becoming more red in fruit?). Corolla uniformly white; basal gibbosity present. Fruit a shiny red berry; ovate; laterally compressed with pointy apex. Leaf material collected for molecular systematic studies. Photographs of this collection are in the Gesneriaceae photo file (US).
Other Data
Project: Neotropical Gesneriaceae