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Family: Ericaceae
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Cavendishia grossa Luteyn
Isotype of Cavendishia grossa Luteyn
Collection number: 7050
Collection date: 22nd March 1979
Country/Territory: Colombia:Antioquia
Collecting locality: Colombia:Departamento de Antioquia:Yarumal-Valdivia road, km 122, ca. 10 kms N of Yarumal. Steep roadside slopes and remnant forest.
Description: Terrestrial shrub to 3 m tall; leaves thick, coriaceous, brittle; petioles & base of leaf veins red; floral bracts red, punctated with yellow glands; pedicels & calyx rose-red at anthesis with bright yellow glands; basal 3/4 of corolla bright glossy red, upper 1/4, limb & lobe white. Locally abundant.
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SHEET
Barcode: E00326973
Herbarium region: 17 (W. Tropical South America)
Number of sheets: 1
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