Collection Details

Species: Drymonia coccinea (Aubl.) Wiehler

Gesneriaceae Drymonia coccinea (Aubl.) Wiehler
J. L. Clark 6284


Collection Date: 30 May 2001
Determined By: J. L. Clark
Determination Date: 30 November 2001
Institution: US

Locality

Country: United States of America

Locality Description: Collected from the Greenhouse of Bob & Dee Stewart (Stow, MA). Stewart accession no. 11657. Obtained by Stewart's from Laurence E. Skog (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC) in 1985.

Botanical Data

Plant Notes: Stems subwoody and pendent. Bracts and calyx lobes light red. Corolla tubular with reflexed lobes. Previously grown in the US Botany Research Greenhouse as accession no. 1985-41. Presumably collected from the wild in French Guiana. Photographs of this collection are in the Gesneriaceae photo file (US). Leaf material collected for molecular systematic studies.

Other Data

Project: Neotropical Gesneriaceae