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(Last Modified On 7/30/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/30/2013)
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Species
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Odontonema microphyllus Durkee
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Kennedy 2762 (MO).
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Description
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Shrub to 1.5 m tall, often decumbent; stems subquadrangular in younger portions, glabrous to puberulous, appearing jointed at the internodes. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 3-5 cm long and 1-1.7 cm wide, apically acuminate, basally attenuate, glabrous on both sides, the cystoliths minute, visible only on the upper surface, the margins entire to undulate; petioles short, 2-4 mm long, pubescence that of the stem. Inflorescences in loose, terminal racemes to 7 cm
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Habit
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Shrub
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Description
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long, pedicels mostly one per bract with occasional pairs, each 1 or occasional pair subtended by a single subulate bract, ca. 1 mm long, 0.5 mm wide at the base; bracteoles, 2 per flower, immediately inside each bract and of similar shape and size; rachis glabrous to puberulous; pedicels 3-6 mm long, the pedicels puberulous. Flowers with the calyx segments subulate, 2-3 mm long, 0.5 mm wide at base, ciliolate; corolla red or red-orange, bilabiate, funnelform, often curved to one side, to 2.3 cm long, 6 mm wide at the throat and 2 mm wide at the base, puberulous outside, mostly glabrous inside except for a few short glandular hairs on the inner surface of the lobes, upper lip 5 mm long, 5 mm wide at the base, 2-lobed, the lobes ovate, 3 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide at the base, the lower lip 3-lobed, each lobe ovate, 5.5 mm long, 3 mm wide at base, apically obtuse; stamens extending to just beyond the notch of the upper lip, the anthers 2 mm long, the filaments glabrous, the staminodes 2.5-3 mm long, apically apiculate and curved to one side, glabrous. Capsules 4-seeded, clavate, 2 cm long, 4 mm broad, 4 mm thick, minutely puberulous; seeds oval, flattened, 3 mm long, 2.5 mm wide ca. 1 mm thick, the surface roughened.
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Note
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This species grows in low forests and mountain slopes.
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Specimen
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COLON: Santa Rita, abandoned lumber road N of Agua Clara rain gauge, Kennedy 2762 (MO). PANAMA': Cerro Jefe, Duke 8004, 9457 (both MO); Dwyer 8368 (MO); Gentry 2877 (MO). La Eneida, Cerro Jefe region, 750 m, Maas & Dressier 694 (MO). E slope of Cerro Jefe, 2700 ft, Tyson 3375 (MO). Edge of forest along the Cartli Road between about 10-12 km from its intersection with the Panamanian Highway beyond Chepo, Wilbur & Luteyn 19528 (DUKE). Slopes of Cerro Jefe beyond Cerro Azul ca. 5.5 mi on road to La Eneida, 2700-3000 ft, Wilbur & Teeri 13639 (DUKE). Slopes of Cerro Jefe beyond Cerro Azul be- tween 4-8 mi in mostly heavily wooded slopes, Wilbur & Weaver 11378 (DUKE). Forested slopes of Cerro Jefe, Wilbur et al. 11323 (DUKE). Slopes of Cerro Jefe between Cerro Azul and La Eneida ca. 15 mi NE of Panama City, Wilbur et al. 15543 (DUKE).
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