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Lophospermum D.Don

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Lophospermum D.Don in Anonymous, Philos. Mag. J. 67: 222 (1826)
Lophospermum D.Don

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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D.Don
D.Don
1826
222
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Lophospermum D.Don
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Lophospermum

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Lophospermum

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Lophospermum D.Don

Perennial herbs with stems climbing or scrambling by means of long flexible and coiling shoots and petioles. Lvs alternate or opposite; lamina palmately veined, usually triangular to hastate or broadly ovate; margins dentate to crenate. Fls solitary and axillary. Calyx 5-lobed, ± irregular; lobes almost free or connate, often coloured. Corolla large, bilabiate, usually pink to purple or red, ± glandular-hairy; throat open, without inflated pouch; upper 2 lobes recurved; lower 3 lobes directed forwards. Stamens 4, included. Capsule globose or asymmetric, loculicidal with irregular apical dehiscence. Seed numerous, winged, tuberculate to appendaged, small.

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Lophospermum D.Don
Lophospermum
Lophospermum D.Don

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584b0f45-9d09-4392-909e-270ae671b22b
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1 January 2000
29 January 2014
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