Herbarium catalogue

Family: Gesneriaceae

Paraboea birmanica (Craib) C.Puglisi

Isotype of Boea birmanica Craib

Collector/Expedition: Lace, John Henry

Collection number: 5882

Collection date: 11th August 1912

Country/Territory: Myanmar:Mandalay

Collecting locality: Maymyo. On bare hill near Pwedaung

Habitat: On rocks

Description: Stems, undersurface of leaves, petiole and inflorescence covered with white flocculent tomentum. A woolly plant on rocks. Calyx 2-lipped, lower-lip two-partite nearly to base, the upper 3-lobed at apex only at first, afterwards sometimes to halfway down. Corolla wide, campanulate, sub bilabiate, 5 lobes sub-equal, white tinged with pale pink or mauve. Perfect St.2 anthers rounded connivent. Stigma long, deflected slightly to one side. Capsule twisted, placenta deeply intruded, bifid.

Barcode: E00259904

Cite as: https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00259904

Herbarium region: 5C (Myanmar (Burma))

Number of sheets: 1