Family | MALVACEAE |
Genus species | Nototriche epileuca A.W.Hill |
Bibliography | Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 37: 585 (1906) |
Native Range | Peru |
Primary Biome | Montane Tropical |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 4300-4500m |
Description | leaves loosely rosulate, long petiolate, in outline triangular, trifid, abaxially white tomentose, adaxially glabrous, segments pinnatifid, lobes trisect |
Size | 5-9cm |
Color | red |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 8 Southern America 83 Western South America (PER Peru) |