Details for: TARS 1471, Posoqueria latifolia (Rudge) Schult., Needleflower Tree


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Posoqueria latifolia (Rudge) Schult.
Top Name:
Needleflower Tree
Origin:
Donated –
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
Jan 1927
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Availability
This is historical information about this accession. It no longer exists and can not be requested.
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Posoqueria latifolia (Rudge) Schult.
Top Name:
Needleflower Tree
Origin:
Donated –
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
Jan 1927
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Source History
Donated
January 1927.

Comment: From Holger Johansen, Summit, Canal Zone.
Accession Names and Identifiers
Needleflower Tree
Type: Local name
Group: MISC.TARS

Narrative
"A very pretty flowering tree of Central America. The long tubular flowers appear in large clusters, are waxy white and vaery fragant. The tree is a rapid grower and blossoms when about two years old." Notes taken from old accession book.
Posoqueria latifolia (Rudge) Schult.
Genus:
Posoqueria
Family:
Rubiaceae
Tribe:
Posoquerieae
Nomen number:

29460
Place of publication:

Syst. veg. 5:227. 1819
Verified:
01/26/2021 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Solena latifolia Rudge

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Posoqueria multiflora Lem.

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