Tropaeolum adpressum

{{Short description|Flowering plant}}

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| image = Adpressum flower.jpg

| genus = Tropaeolum

| species = adpressum

| authority = Hughes, 1922

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Tropaeolum adpressum is a flowering plant in the family Tropaeolaceae. It is commonly known as nasturtium. The plant is native to Colombia and Ecuador.{{Cite journal |last=Palmer |first=Ernest J. |date= |title=Catalogue of the Plants of Jasper County, Missouri. (Fernworts and Flowering Plants) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2990051 |journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=345 |doi=10.2307/2990051 |issn=0026-6493|hdl=2027/hvd.32044106355050 |hdl-access=free }}{{Cite web |title=Tropaeolum adpressum Hughes {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:310776-2 |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Constance |first=Lincoln |last2=Walker |first2=Egbert H. |date=1976 |title=Flora of Okinawa and the Southern Ryukyu Islands. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2418764 |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=136 |doi=10.2307/2418764 |issn=0363-6445|url-access=subscription }} The flowers have a red cone shaped body with green petals. The body of adpressum is covered in fine hair-like structures.{{Citation |last=Wiklund |first=Anders |title=Sweden (opera) |date=2002 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.o904836 |work=Oxford Music Online |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=2022-05-29}} Adpressum can be found from 700m-3000m{{Cite journal |last=Kappelle |first=Maarten |date=1995 |title=C. Ulloa Ulloa & P. M. Jørgensen 1993. Arboles y arbustos de los Andes del Ecuador. AUU Reports 30. Aarhus University (in association with the Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Quito, Ecuador). Aarhus, Denmark, xx + 264 pages. ISSN 0904-6453; ISBN 87-87600-39-9. Price: 80 DKK (paperback). |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026646740000849x |journal=Journal of Tropical Ecology |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=140–140 |doi= |issn=0266-4674}}

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adpressum

Category:Plants described in 1922

Category:Flora of Colombia

Category:Flora of Ecuador

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