Calibrachoa

Cervantes in P. de la Llave and J. M. de Lexarza

Nov. Veg. Descr. 2: 3. 1825.

Introduced
Etymology: For Antonio de la Cal y Bracho, 1764/1766–1833, Spanish-born Mexican botanist and pharmacologist
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Herbs, annual or perennial, viscid-pubescent [eglandular], roots fibrous or woody. Stems sprawl­ing or procumbent, branched. Leaves alternate, (subopposite immediately proximal to flowers), petiolate [sessile]; blade ([membranous] fleshy), margins entire. Inflorescences axillary, solitary flowers. Flowers 5-merous, usually bilaterally symmetric; calyx not accrescent, tubular-obconic to campanulate, lobes 5, lanceolate; corolla white, white with blue to violet limb, blue, or violet [yellow], ± bilateral, funnelform [salverform or tubular], lobes rounded; stamens 4, inserted in abaxial 1/2 of corolla tube, didynamous plus 5th smaller, sterile filament; anthers oblong, ventri­fixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits; ovary 2-carpellate; style (not exserted), sigmoidally curved, proximally slender, distally expanded; stigma 2-lobed [capitate]. Fruits capsules, hemispheric, (2-valved). Seeds (130–1200), ovoid [spheric to subreniform] (foveolate-reticulate). x = 9.

Distribution

Introduced; South America, introduced also in Mexico, Central America, elsewhere in South America.

Discussion

Species ca. 30 (1 in the flora).

Diversity of Calibrachoa is greatest in South America, especially southern Brazil. Members of Calibrachoa were previously incorporated in Petunia and can be found there in some references.

Selected References

None.

... more about "Calibrachoa"
Philip D. Jenkins† +
Cervantes in P. de la Llave and J. M. de Lexarza +
South America +, introduced also in Mexico +, Central America +  and elsewhere in South America. +
For Antonio de la Cal y Bracho, 1764/1766–1833, Spanish-born Mexican botanist and pharmacologist +
Nov. Veg. Descr. +
Introduced +
Calibrachoa +
Solanaceae +