Family | MALVACEAE |
Genus species | Nototriche nigrescens A.W.Hill |
Bibliography | Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 37: 580 (1906) |
Native Range | Peru |
Primary Biome | Montane Tropical |
Habitat | grassland and rocks |
Altitude | 4400-5200m |
Description | leaves crowded, white cinereous, abaxially blackish, petiolate, 8mm, flabellate, segments lobate, crenate, obtuse, flowers subsessile, 2cm long |
Size | 3-7cm |
Color | lilac-blue |
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) |