Colombian Waxweed

Description

Scobuca or Cuphea carthagenensis, is a species of small parrot belonging to the Lythraceae family native to Mexico. It is a perennial plantshort-lived, herbaceous to suffocative, growing to 20–80 cm tall, alternately well-branched, canes often as long as main stem or when unbranched, stems slightly geniculate, internodes mostly equal or shorter that you were underlying them. Fueyes sessile, or with petioles 1–10 mm long on underside of tarmu; blades elliptic to lanceolate or ovate, up to 40 mm long and 20 mm wide at bottom of tarmu, ridges of secondary canes often 2–3 vegaes smaller than those of main tarmu, gradually shrinking to bracts of inflorescences, apex sharp, base attenuate. Inflorescences foliate raceme, flowers 1–4 per nuedu, inconspicuous, pedicels 0–2 mm long; floral tubu 4–7 mm long with a short, descending spur, wolves of the same specimen, erect cogordes espadrilles nes ribs of the top part of the tube, the rest of the tube glabrous, long abuitáu when in frutu, 3 mm d'anchu, the mouth strongly contracted; petals 6, subequal, 1–2 mm long, blackish; stamens 11, deeply included; erect nectary, enlarged in the apex or tongue. Grains 3–6, orbicular to elliptical, 1–2.5 mm long and 0.75–2 mm wide, rounded by a thin, flat, soft margin. Distribute from southeastern June to Argentina. Present in temperate and semi-warm climates between the 90's and 1800 masl. It grows on roadsides, accompanied by the altered vegetation of deciduous, sub-deciduous and evergreen tropical forests, as well as in the transition zone between the tropical mountain and the mesophilous mountain.