Literature for Clermontia grandiflora
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Clermontia grandiflora subsp. grandiflora Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Clermontia grandiflora subsp. munroi Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Clermontia grandiflora subsp. maxima Lammers, 1991. |
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Campanulaceae -- The Bellflower Family | Bibliography |
Clermontia grandiflora |
General Information | |
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Distribution | |
Habit |
Terrestrial or rarely epiphytic shrubs or trees 1-6 m tall. |
Leaves |
Leaves elliptic or oblanceolate, blades 4-15 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, upper surface green, glabrous, lower surface pale green, glabrous or pubescent, margins callose-crenulate, apex acute, acuminate, or cuspidate, base cuneate or attenuate, petioles 0.2-4 cm long. |
Flowers |
Inflorescences 2(-5)-flowered, pendulous, peduncles 20-110 mm long, pedicels 18-65 mm long; hypanthium turbinate or obovoid, 10-17 mm long, 10-20 mm wide; perianth greenish, purplish, maroon, or rose, curved to arcuate, distinctly tubular, 55-80 mm long, 7-20 mm wide, glabrous, the lobes (except the dorsal) erect or downcurved slightly, 1/5-1/3 as long as the tube; staminal column purple or magenta, glabrous; anthers purple, glabrous. |
Fruit |
Berries orange, obovoid to subglobose, 16-26 mm long, 10-20 mm wide. |
Chromosomes |
2n = 28* |