Gomphostemma longipetalum 3 ongch.
Creators: name: Bongcheewin, Bhanubong
name: Ingrouille, Martin J.
name: Paton, Alan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Gomphostemma
Gomphostemma longipetalum

description: <b> 6. Gomphostemma longipetalum <i>3ongch.</i></b> <b>sp. nop.</b> Type: Burma, Kachin, Mountains East of Fort Hertz, 25°30&amp;N 95°30&amp;E, 600 – 900 m [2000 – 3000 ft], 3 Sept. 1926, <i>Ward</i> 5339 (holotype K [K001081923]). http://www.ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:55221335-1 Erect herb, up to 0.6 m tall. <i>Stems</i> ascending, woody at nodes, obtusely quadrangular, with longitudinal grooves, tomentose with dense stellate hairs with a 1- celled stalk or sessile stellate hairs, dendroid hairs absent; internodes straight. <i>Leaoes</i> petiolate, spreading, chartaceous; blades elliptic or elliptic-ovate, 10 – 15 × 3 – 5 cm, apex acute, margin shallowly serrate, base attenuate, upper side coarse with 1 – 3-celled simple hairs, bifurcate hairs or stellate hairs, lower side pale green tomentose with dense stellate hairs; petioles 10 – 13 mm long. <i>Inflorescence</i> axillary, with opposite cymes sessile, unbranched then congested with axis not visible between flowers, exceeding 20 mm wide when pressed, excluding corolla, inserted at the upper nodes at which leaves are usually present; verticils manyflowered; bracts elliptic, 6 – 10 × 2 – 3 mm, apex acute, margin serrate, base attenuate, upper side with simple hairs and bifurcate hairs, lower side tomentose with stellate hairs; bracteoles narrowly elliptic, sometimes falcate or ensiform, 6 – 8 × 1 – 1.3 mm. <i>Flowering calyx</i> infundibular, 8 – 10 mm long, 3-ridged, outside with dense stellate hairs, inside tomentose with adpressed short simple hairs; tube 2 – 3 mm long; lobes 2 – 3 mm long, apex filiform. <i>Fruiting calyx</i> not seen. <i>Corolla</i> yellow, 20 – 30 mm long, throat narrow, not enlarged, outside tomentose with sessile stellate hairs and glandular-like simple hairs with a multi-celled stalk, inside glabrous; tube straight, 32 – 22 mm long, exserted from the calyx; posterior lobe hood-like, 6 – 8 × 3 – 3 mm; anterior lobes spreading; median lobe 3 – 5 mm long. <i>Staminal filaments</i> slender. <i>Disk</i> lobed, tumescent behind. <i>Style</i> slender with apex unequally lobed. <i>Nutlets</i> not seen. Fig. 5. <b>RECOGNITION</b>. <i>Gomphostemma longipetalum</i> is distinguished from the straight corolla tube species of <i>Gomphostemma</i> in having a much longer corolla, 20 – 30 mm long, calyx lobes not longer than the tube and cymes inserted at the lower nodes where the leaves have fallen. This species could be confused with <i>G. crinitum</i> because of its straight corolla tube and narrow corolla throat but that species has a shorter corolla, 20 – 30 mm long, and calyx lobes much longer than the tube. <b>DISTRIBUTION.</b> Myanmar. Map 2. <b> SPECIMENS EXAMINED. MYANMAR. Kachin: mountains E of Fort Hertz, 25°30&amp;N 95°30&amp;E, 3 Sept. 1926, <i>Ward</i> 5339 (holotype K).</b> <b>HABITAT.</b> In mountains; alt. 600 – 900 m. <b>CONSERVATION STATUS.</b> <i>Gomphostemma longipetalum</i> is known only from the type specimen collected in 1926. Although the label mentioned that this species is ‘fairly abundant at one spot’, the?ata?eficient (??) category is applied due to the lack of further records. <b>PHENOLOGY</b>. Flowering September. <b>NOTES.</b> The epithet <i>longipetalum</i> [<i>longi-</i> (in Greek compound), long; <i>-petalum</i>, petal] refers to its corolla length.
description: Published as part of <i>Bongcheewin, Bhanubong, Ingrouille, Martin J. &amp; Paton, Alan J., 2022, A revision of Gomphostemma (Lamiaceae), pp. 27-92 in Kew Bulletin 77 (1)</i> on page 45, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-021-09991-y, http://zenodo.org/record/7615581