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Ferdinandusa panamensis (Ferdinandusa panamensis)

Description

Ferdinandusa panamensis is a gingerbread species described by Paul Carpenter Standley and Louis Otho Otto Williams . Ferdinandusa panamensis is included in the genus Ferdinandusa and the family mare plants. They are trees that reach up to 20 m in height, glabrous to pilose; They are hermaphrodites The leaves are opposite, elliptical to elliptic-oblong, 6-22 cm long and 4-10 cm wide, the apex acuminate, with the base obtuse to cuneate, papiráceous to chartaceous. Flowers slightly zigomorphic 5-lobed; the infundibuliform corolla, from white to yellowish-green, with a tube 6-25 mm long, and wolves 5, 4-6 mm long, obtuse, convolute. The fruits are woody capsules, smooth, 30-65 mm long and 5-15 mm wide; with elliptic seeds 10-20 mm long, flattened, with marginal membranous wing.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Gentianales

            • Family: Rubiaceae

              • Genus: Ferdinandusa