Siphocampylus

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Siphocampylus (Greek, siphon, tube, and kampylos, curved, referring to corolla); sometimes misspelled Syphocampylus. Campanulaceae. Herbs, sub-shrubs, or shrubs, sometimes climbing, glabrous, hirsute or stellate-tomentose, adapted to the warm- or coolhouse: lvs. alternate, rarely verticillate, entire or denticulate, rarely incise-dentate or pinnately lobed or divided: peduncles 1-fld., axillary or corymbosely grouped at the ends of the branches or laxly racemose: fls. often rather large, red, orange, or purplish, rarely green; calyx 5-lobed; corolla straight or incurved: caps. loculicidally 2-valved.—About 100 species, Trop. Amer. S. bicolor, Don-Lobelia laxiflora, HBK.—S. giganteus, Don (Tupa salicifolia, Don) grows 14 ft. high: lvs. lanceolate, 6-9 in. long, scarcely petioled: fls. reddish yellow; corolla falcate, velvety. Ecuador.—S. Lindleyi, Lem., has ovate-oblong, glandulose-serrate lvs. and approximate red fls. Colombia. J.F. 2:142.—S. Orbignianus, A. DC., is herbaceous; has ternate, ovate-acuminate, short-petioled lvs. and numerous red-and-yellow fls. in the upper axils. Bolivia. J.F. 4:425.—S. rugosus, A. DC., has pendulous branches, ovate-rotund coriaceous and rugose lvs., the corolla with lanceolate, acute lobes and the caps. 10-angled. Peru. H.U. 3, p. 368. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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