Family | GENTIANACEAE |
Genus species | Halenia killipii C.K.Allen |
Bibliography | Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 20: 187 (1933) |
Native Range | Peru |
Primary Biome | Montane Tropical |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 4500-5000m |
Description | pale green, stems conspicuosly winged, basal leaves few, carnose, long petiolate, oblanceolate, 2-4cm, stem leaves sessile, linear, flowers in terminal cyme |
Size | 3-25cm |
Color | yellow-green |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 8 Southern America 83 Western South America (PER Peru) |