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Accession Data:

Stegolepis ferruginea Baker

  • Common Name:
  • Family: Rapateaceae Dumort.

  • Country of Origin: Guyana
  • Habitat: terrestrial & low epiphyte

  • Description: Leaves green; Flowers - peduncle green, bracts brown

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200000075
  • Source: Mike Bordelon - Smithsonian
  • Provenance:
    Originally acquired in 2000, original specimen died after about 8 months.
    Reacquired on 27 March 2007
    Smithsonian #86-1854, collected from cultivation by W. John Kress on April 1, 1986 from Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota FL - Selby# 86-516 
    coll: Kaieteur Falls, 1300'
    Update 6SEP2017: ID confirmed as Stegolepis ferruginea per Bruce Holst, Director of Botany, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.
    
  • Accession Date: 10-24-2000
  • Bench: 0 - unassigned location
    • Currently: active - marginal
    • Qty: 0 confirmed on 11-05-2021

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: commelinids
  • Order: Poales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Rapateaceae
  • SubFamily: Saxofridericioideae
  • Tribe: Saxofridericieae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Guyana

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, May 19, 2017.
  2. WCSP (2014). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 22 September 2014.
  3. Stegolepis ferruginea at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Friday, May 19, 2017.

data regenerated on Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:33:08 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Stegolepis ferruginea

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Current Accessions in the Rapateaceae

Subfamily Saxofridericioideae
Tribe Saxofridericieae

  • Stegolepis ferruginea
  • Stegolepis ferruginea W/C
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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