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Aphelandra squarrosa, Nées (A. Leopoldii, Hort. A. chrysops, Bull). Lvs. large, ovate to ovate-elliptic, acuminate, dark green above (pale below), with white rib and main veins: infl. a simple, erect, or compound spike, up to 1 ft. long; fls. pale yellow and exserted one-third their length beyond the yellow crenate-dentate bracts. Brazil. A. squarrosa itself is not in cult., the showy plant in the trade (and described herewith) being Var. Lèopoldii, Van Houtte. Fig. 230. F.S.9:889. G.C. III. 1, p. 737. Var. Loùisae, Van Houtte. Dwarfer and smaller in all its parte than var. Leopoldii: St. slender, dark reddish green, terete, covered in parte with soft pilose hairs, upper part of the st. below the infl. quite glabrous: Lvs. 3-5 in. long, elliptic, rich dark green with brighter colored silvery markings along the midrib and principal veins: inn. 3-fl in. long, unbranched; bracts ovate, ¾ in. long, rich dark yellow, with green markings in the middle; fls. exserted beyond the bracts over half their length, rich canary-yellow, ½ in. diam., lower 3 petals forming a lip and reflexed, upper 2 hooded, reflexing with age; tube broad, broadening out upwards with a narrow base, 1¼ in. long. Brazil. G.VV. 3:157.
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