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Morphotype Details


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Morphotype: RP111b

Name (Author): Florissantia quilchenensis Mathewes and Brooke

Organ: Flower      Rarity: Common

Family:    Order: Malvales

Specimen #: UWBM 54390   Category: Other

Diagnostic Features:
Flowers consisting of five partially fused large sepals with prominent reticulate venation. Rarely a corolla of five small rounded petals may be preserved. Well preserved flowers will show a central disk.

Higher Taxon: 

Source of Name: Manchester, 1992

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Collection ID: UWBM

Morphotype Description:


Comments:
This specimen shows well preserved petals in the center of the flower.

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