Urechites
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Read about Urechites in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Urechites (tailed Echites, alluding to the appendages of the corolla). Apocynaceae. Prostrate plants or twining vines, allied to Dipladenia and having similar cultural requirements. Sts. woody or nearly so: lvs. opposite, the blades entire: fls. often showy, in axillary or terminal cymes or racemes, or sometimes only 2 together; calyx-lobes 5, long and narrow; corolla funnel-shaped, rather large, abruptly widened into a throat, 5-lobed, the lobes sometimes elongated and twisted; stamens inserted at top of the corolla-tube and included in the throat, the anthers sagittate; disk cup-shaped, 5-lobed or nearly entire: fr. comprised of 2 long spreading follicles. Species about 10, m Trop. Amer. and extending into Fla. U. suberecta, Muell. Arg., of Colombia, is sometimes grown in the warmhouse: somewhat woody and partially erect: lvs. ovate to elliptic: fls. large, yellow, in a terminal peduncled cyme. B.M. 1064 (as Echites suberecta), and 4702 (as Dipladenia flava). CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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