Appearance
Tetramerous flowers, prevailingly dimorphic stamens with dorsally appendiculate anthers, capsular fruits that are free from the hypanthium, and cochleate seed.Leaves have a hypodermis and lack stomata on the adaxial leaf surface as well as conspicuous glands or stomatal crypts, and the hypanthium has a single, sparser lining of druses.
Distribution
Native from Costa Rica. Worldwide spread as ornamental.Habitat
Warm temperate to tropical montane habitats.References:
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http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:163710-2https://www.gbif.org/species/3859049
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0367253015000225
