Asketanthera calycosa (A. Rich.) R. E. Woodson

Asketanthera calycosa (A. Rich.) Woodson, Ann
Mo. Bot. Gard. 19: 47. 1932.
Echites calycosa A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 94. 1850. Rhodocalyx calycosus Miers, Apoc. S. Am. 140. 1878. Echites Rugeliana Urban, Symb. Ant. S: 465. 1908.
Fruticose or suffruticose liana, densely ferruginous-hispidulous to glabrate throughout; leaves membranaceous, broadly ovate-elliptic, 8-15 cm. long, 5-9 cm. broad, acuminate, obtuse to rounded at the base, minutely strigillose to glabrate above, densely puberulent-pilosulous beneath, the petioles 7-10 mm. long; inflorescence subcorymbose, congested, about as long as the subtending leaves, bearing 5-12 pale-greenish-white or yellowish flowers of moderate size; pedicels 10-15 mm. long, densely hispidulous; bracts lanceolate, conspicuously foliaceous.
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12-20 mm. long; calyx-lobes elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 10-20 mm. long, conspicuously foliaceous, rather sparsely pilose; corolla salverform, rather sparsely pilose externally, the tube 10-13 mm. long, about 2 mm. in diameter at the base, the lobes obliquely elliptic-oblanceolate, 30-45 mm. long, spreading; stamens inserted near the middle of the corolla-tube, the anthers barely included; nectaries about half as long as the ovary; follicles relatively stout, 25-30 cm. long, densely ferruginous-hispid.
Type locality: Near Santiago de Cuba.
Distribution: Cuba.