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Malesherbia splendens
Malesherbia splendens is a shrub in the genus Malesherbia. It is colloquially known as Moro, Fox Tail, and Veronica.
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Description
Malesherbia splendes is a shrub with a woody trunk that can grow up to 1.5-2 meters high. It has densely leafy 50-95 cm long branches. The plant produces "numerous" immature seeds, these are fovelated with fine long ribs.
Flower morphology. Flowers are found in the axil of lesser leaves. They are tubular and yellow or pale green. Sepals are 9-10mm long, triangular, and end with a thick glandular hair. Stamen are exserted with 45-48mm long filaments and 3-.52mm long anthers. Pollen grains are 67-83x40-49mic. Styles are longer than stamen, approximately 50-52mm long with small obconical stigmas.
Wikipedia: “Morphology”
Range & habitat
Malesherbia splendes is native to the Lurín river basin of the Andean region of Peru. It is found at altitudes of 2100-3000m in arid and rocky slopes of the western slopes of the central Andes.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 768293.