Telanthera bettzickiana

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Telanthera bettzickiana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Telanthera bettzickiana, Regel (originally, in 1862, spelled as here, but changed by the author in 1862 to Bettzichiana). Fig. 3785. Plant described as suffruticose and erect, the st. branched at base and terete, adpressed-pilose but becoming glabrous: lvs. narrow, spatulate, narrowed into long petiole, apex acuminate and somewhat mucronate: fl.-heads sessile, single, in pairs or 3's, terminal and axillary; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, nearly or quite entire; staminodia much shorter than stamens, 2-3-cut at apex.—To this variable species appear to belong the garden names picta, tricolor, aurea, aurea nana compacta, paronychioides, versicolor aurea, magnifica, and others. Var. typica, Regel (Alternanthera paronychioides, Hort.), is low, 2-3 in. tall, with olive-colored lvs. and the upper ones red at apex. Var. spathulata, Regel (A. spathulata, Lem.), is 6-8 in. tall, the st. and lvs. red. I.H. 12:445. ^CH 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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