Pachystachys lutea
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Date collected: December 04, 1999
Collected by:Joyce Ann Edgar
Synonym: Pachystachys lutea
- Genus species: Pachystachys lutea
- Family: Acanthaceae
- English name: Golden Candle (Lollipop plant)
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- Growth form: Shrub
- Growth location: terrestrial
- Growth environment: cultivated garden
- Growth zone: tropical
- Average height: 70 cm
- Stem: woody smooth
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Stipule: absent
- Petioles: 0.1-0.3 cm
- Leaf blade:oval to lanceolate shaped leaves; 1-15 cm long,acuminate tip; acute to
cordate base; kind of smooth, bright green upper surface; pinnate venation; entire to
serrulate margin
- Inflorescence:spike usually comprised of four or more flowers; flowers are opposite
located at the base of each bract
- Floral bracts: cone-shaped; each bract is kind of cordate shaped; 2.5 cm; golden yellow
- Flower: bilabiate
- Calyx: two observed
- Corrola: seem to be four or five, but fused together
- Stamens: 2 observed at time of collection; 1.5-2 cm filament; fork-like 0.4 anthers
- Ovary: green
- Style: 2-2.5 cm single style
- Fruit: flower odor is light
- Seed: none observed at collection time
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