Phelypaea
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Read about Phelypaea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Phelypaea (after Louis and Hier. Phelipeaux). Also spelled Phelipaea. Orobanchaceae. Herbs, puber- ulent or glabrous, from a thick short few-scaled base: scapes simple, elongated, remotely few-scaled or the elongated peduncles naked, scape-like, always 1-fld., bractless; calyx 5-parted, broad-campanulate, lobes acute, unequal; corolla-tube broadly ventricose, incurved, limb sub-2-labiate, with 5 broadly rounded not very unequal lobes, anterior lip at base gibbous or with 2 broad glandulose-pubescent spots; stamens included; ovary with 4 placentae: fr. a perfect 2-valved acute, ovate caps.—About 5 species, chiefly in the Orient, but also in N. Afr. and Asia. P. foliata, Lamb. Parasitic leafless herb 1-1 1/2 ft. high: sts. simple, rather stout, glandular-puberulous, reddish: fl. solitary, terminal, ebracteate; calyx campanulate, unequally 5-lobed, usually somewhat 2-lipped, lobes oblong or ovate, deep red or chestnut-brown; corolla ringent, tube widely and obliquely campanulate, orange flushed with red outside, limb 2-lipped, reddish yellow outside, brilliant crimson within, the throat with 2 black hirsute spots: fr. a wide ovate caps, nearly 1/2in. long. Caucasus. It has been raised in botanic gardens in Eu. F. Tracy Hubbard. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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