Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Tropaeolum pendulum Klotzsch, Alig. Gartenz. 18 : 377. 1850
A climbing glabrous plant, not tuberous. Stems moderately stout ; stipules wanting ; leaf-blades peltate, semicircular-reniform, slightly 5-lobed, the lobes mucronate ; peduncle shorter than the petiole, pendulous ; spur cylindric-subulate, straight or somewhat curved, about 1.5 cm. long; sepals ovate; petals yellow, cuneate, crenate at the apex, the upper marked with red lines and violet spots, the lower with a long claw.
Type locality : Central America.
Distribution : Central America; also in Colombia (fide Buchenau).
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
