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Racinaea penduliflora showing the reddish colouration of the leaf base and margins and some spotting, and an old inflorescence (coll. PE08-358)

Racinaea penduliflora showing the reddish colouration of the leaf base and margins and some spotting, and an old inflorescence (coll. PE08-358)

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A new species of racinaea from Peru Scientific and more apiculate, erect with recurv-ing apex, densely cinereous-lepidote; primary-bracts spreading, elliptic, the lower ones like the peduncle-bracts, 2-3 cm long, 0.8-1 cm wide, slightly exceeding or shorter than the stipe, apiculate, densely cinereous lepidote, branches 3-12 cm long, with a stipe o...

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