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Heliconias
Heliconia unID from Rio Luis
subgenus Heliconia
section Tortex
- native to: Panama
- comment: It looks like an intermediate or hybrid between H. lindsayana and H. irrasa.
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Bracts are longer than H. irrasa and shorter than H. llindsayana.
Bracts don't curl under as in H. irrasa, and lack the delicate proportions of H. lindsayana.
Foliage has the distinctive light midrib of H. lindsayana, but is proportionally wider.
Flower.
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- habit: musoid
- height: 2.5 meters
- leaf blade: 162 centimeters
- leaf blade: 68 - 20 L - W in centimeters
- color notes: leaf dark green above with light midrib; very attractive
- stems per clump: 3 - 5
- comment: petioles maroon
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- form: erect
- orientation: spiral
- bract color: light red outside, yellow inside
- rachis: light red under keel, yellow on opposite side
- number of bracts: 6
- overall length: 49; 26 of that is peduncle centimeters
- bract size: 12 - 3 L - W in centimeters
- flower color: yellow with loose upper sepal
- flower form: slightly curved
- ovary: none seen
- comment: peduncle maroon
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- accession number: 2005-03-11-01
- location: Panama, Comarca Ngobe-Bugle (formerly part of Veraguas), Rio Luis, Ramo de Luis Bravo
- elevation: 415 meters
- climate: Atlantic slope, no distinct dry season
- soil type: loam; slight slope
- shade percent: 90 %
- habitat notes: dense understory, secondary forest or selectively logged primary forest, some 30m palms and many shorter ones
- common at this location: somewhat, in small area
- associated species: Both H. lindsayana and H. irrasa are in close proximity, and both were blooming in mid-March. H. pogo. var. holerythra
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- date planted: March 2005
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- Carla Black
- Our other web page is http://www.volcanbaru.com
- e-mail: carla (at) heliconiagarden (.) com
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