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Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.

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Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(Brongn.) Schltdl.
Brongn.
Schltdl.
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species
Cestrum elegans

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elegans

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Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.

Shrub 2-4 m high; shoots and petioles densely covered in purplish hairs. Petiole to 2 cm long. Lamina 4-10 × 1.5-5 cm (to at least 16 × 7 cm on vegetative shoots), ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, hairy, densely so beneath; base cuneate to rounded; apex acute or short-acuminate. Infl. paniculate, dense; branches purple, hairy; fls subsessile to shortly pedicellate, scentless. Calyx c. 7 mm long, purple, usually glabrous outside; teeth 1-4 mm long, triangular, acute or short-acuminate, ± ciliate. Corolla 1.8-2.5 cm long, rosy magenta to deep crimson; tube funnelform with narrow-cylindric base and constricted apex, glabrous, shining; lobes 1-3 mm long, ± hairy outside, glabrous inside, short-acuminate. Fr. apparently uncommon, to 2 × 1.5 cm, obovoid, glossy crimson.

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Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.

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Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
Australia
New South Wales
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
New Zealand
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
Norfolk Island
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
Tonga
Cestrum elegans (Brongn.) Schltdl.
United States

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34e77130-ca0b-4ae9-8276-1232a76e75a8
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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