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Wigandia urens, Choisy, not HBK. (W. peruviana, W. Mill. Hydrolea urens, Ruiz & Pav.). Stout erect subshrub up to 12 ft. high, very densely dirty white-hispid: lvs. short-petioled, 8-12 x 6-7 in., broadly ovate, irregularly dentate-serrate, base cordate or truncate, apex obtuse: fls. arranged in a broad terminal raceme (cincinnus); sepals lanceolate-acute, hispid; corolla violet, parted to the middle, lobes elliptical, densely silky outside: caps. oblong, twice shorter than the calyx. Peru. R.H. 1867, p. 470.
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