Talipariti
spreading [erect], minutely hairy [to glabrescent], not viscid.
stipules usually early-deciduous leaving annular scars, prominent, oblong, enclosing terminal bud;
blade broadly ovate [orbiculate, elliptic], not dissected or parted [3-lobed], base deeply cordate [rarely cuneate], margins usually entire (sometimes obscurely crenulate or denticulate), with nectaries near base abaxially.
axillary, solitary flowers;
involucel present, bractlets persistent, connate.
calyx persistent, splitting asymmetrically, not accrescent or inflated, lobes often ribbed, triangular to ovate, not gland-dotted;
corolla campanulate, yellow, fading to orange or red, sometimes drying dark greenish;
staminal column included;
style 5-branched from or beyond orifice or staminal column;
stigmas capitate.
capsules, erect, not inflated, carpels 5, subglobose or ovoid, not indurate, not fleshy, densely hairy, dehiscent.
2–many per carpel, densely hairy or seemingly glabrous.
= 40–48.
Talipariti
Species 22 (1 in the flora).
Two taxa are sometimes cultivated for ornament in southern Florida: Talipariti elatum (Swartz) Fryxell and T. tiliaceum var. tiliaceum, the latter sometimes naturalized. Species of Talipariti usually are estuarine and/or littoral.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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