Salpinga

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Salpinga in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Salpinga (Greek, trumpet, referring to the shape of the calyx). Melastomaceae. Erect glabrous branching herbs, including the warmhouse foliage plant known to the trade as Bertolonia margaritacea. Leaves often unequal, oblong or lanceolate, long-petioled, under surface plum-colored: fls. spicate, on terminal, simple or dichotomously branched peduncles, secund, sessile or pedicellate; calyx glabrous, tube tubular or campanulate, 10-ribbed, the lobes short, tuberculate outside; petals 5, oblong or obovate; stamens 10; ovary free, oblong, 3-celled: caps. 3-edged, included in the terete, thickened, ribbed calyx.—Four species, Guiana, Brazil, and Peru. S. longifolia, Triana (Bertolonia longifolia, Cham.). St. short, herbaceous: lvs. oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, base rounded or slightly cordate, upper surface bright green, glabrous, lower surface paler, scurfy-pubescent: cymes terminal; fls. white: caps. pale, 3-sided. Brazil. – S.secunda, Schrank & Mart. St. subshrubby, erect: lvs. narrow-ovate or ovate-oblong, base rather obtuse or short-alternate, upper surface light green, lower surface paler: cymes terminal and axillary; fls. unknown: caps. pale red-brown, narrowly oblong, subcylindrical. Brazil. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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