Home Flora of Panama (WFO)
Name Search
Markup OCR Documents
Psammisia ramiflora Klotzsch Search in The Plant ListSearch in IPNISearch in Australian Plant Name IndexSearch in NYBG Virtual HerbariumSearch in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleSearch in Type Specimen Register of the U.S. National HerbariumSearch in Virtual Herbaria AustriaSearch in JSTOR Plant ScienceSearch in SEINetSearch in African Plants Database at Geneva Botanical GardenAfrican Plants, Senckenberg Photo GallerySearch in Flora do Brasil 2020Search in Reflora - Virtual HerbariumSearch in Living Collections Decrease font Increase font Restore font
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 7/24/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 7/24/2013)
Species Psammisia ramiflora Klotzsch
PlaceOfPublication Linnaea 24: 44. 1851.
Note TYPE: "in locis alpes- tribus Veraguae Americanae centralis," Warscewicz (B, holotype, not seen; photo F, GH, NY).
Synonym Psammisia symphystemona Donnell Smith, Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville) 20: 291. 1895. TYPE: Costa Rica: Prov. de Alajuela: Mariposa, 5500 ft, Cooper 5842 (US, holotype; GH, US, iso- types; photo, NY).
Description Usually epiphytic shrubs with slender, terete, glabrous branchlets. Leaves oblong or ovate oblong, 8-19(-27) cm long, 3-7(-11) cm wide, basally cuneate to rounded, apically caudate acuminate, the tip often 2-4 cm long, entire, gla- brous both above and below, 5-plinerved with the secondary nerves originating slightly above the base and ascending near the margins, the midvein slightly im- pressed or flush above and prominently elevated beneath, the veinlets conspicu- ously reticulate and elevated on both the surfaces but especially so beneath; petioles rugose, (3-)5-12(-17) mm long, glabrous, narrowly winged above. Inflo- rescence axillary, subfasciculate or short racemose, 4-15-flowered, the rachis less than 1 cm long, in fruit 1-4 cm long, glabrate throughout; pedicels slender, stri- ate, 8-25 mm long, each subtended by an oblong or triangularly deltoid, persis- tent bract (1-)3-4 mm long and with 2, usually supramedial, deltoid, persistent bracteoles 1.5-2.5 mm long. Flowers with the hypanthium subcylindric or broadly obconic, ca. 3 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter at the summit, glabrous, the calyx limb 3.5-4.5 mm long including the lobes, the lobes 5, triangular, acute, ca. 1.5 mm long; corolla subcylindric, red with a white tip, 20-35 mm long, 6-10 mm in diameter medially and near the base, contracted above to 4-5 mm in diameter before the elongate throat, the throat often with appressed glandular trichomes 0.1-0.4 mm long, the corolla lobes oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm long; stamens 10 (or in the rare 6-parted flowers, 12) 8-10 mm long, the filaments mem- branous, brown, 3.5-4.5 mm long, connate for their entire length or sometimes lightly coherent near the base or completely separate and leading into the con- nectives, the connectives narrow, ciliate with trichomes ca. 0.2 mm long, distally and alternately unequally 2-spurred, the anther sacs 3-3.2 mm long opening into pairs of tubules, the tubules, cylindric conic, 2-3 mm long, weakly coherent or distinct to the base, opening introrsely by oval clefts about ? as long as the tubules; stigma truncate, the style exserted, 32-37 mm long, glabrous. Berry subglobose, 8-10 mm high, 10-13 mm in diameter.
Habit shrubs
Note This species, known only from Costa Rica and Panama, exhibits more varia- tion than one would expect even in as variable a group as the thibaudioid ericads. The Chiriqui specimens all closely match the numerous Costa Rican rep- resentatives which mainly occur about the Meseta Central and especially in the Cordillera Central. Those specimens from the vicinity of Santa Fe in Veraguas have filaments ranging from weakly coherent to completely separate and their leaves seem more coriaceous with a slightly different venation pattern from the populations from Costa Rica and Chiriqui. The specimens seen from Cocle all have separate filaments. Specimens from Panamar and Darien all seemingly have connate filaments but with leaves slightly different from those from Costa Rica and Chiriqui both in texture and venation.
Distribution Costa Rica and Panama
Specimen CHIRIQUI: Trail from Paso Ancho to Monte Lirio, upper valley of Rio Chiriqui Viejo, 1500-2000 m, Allen 1503 (GH, MO, NY, US). Cloud forest 1-2 km N of Las Nubes and W of Cerro Punta peak, 5 km NW of Cerro Punta, 2000-2200 m, Almeda 1536 (DUKE). Rich cloud forests, Las Nubes, 5.5 km NW of Rio Chiriqui Viejo, 2200 m, Busey 665, Croat 26447 (both MO). Cerro Colorado Copper Mine Development, 28 mi above San Felix, 9-10 mi above turnoff to Escopeta, 1200-1500 m, Croat 33197 (MO). Wet river gorge, Rio Chiri- qui Viejo above town of Cerro Punta, 6000-8000 ft, D'Arcy 6580 (MO). Bajo Chorro, Boquete, Davidson 59 (A, F, MO, US). Rain forest, Bajo Chorro, 6000 ft, Davidson 606, 607 (both F). Slopes of Cerro Punta, 2000 m, Gentry 5865 (DUKE, F, MO, NY). Rain forest, Cerro Horqueta, 6500 ft, Hagen 2026 (A, NY). Premontane forest between Pinola and Quebrada Hondo on Chiriquf Trail towards summit, Kirkbride & Duke 897 (MO, NY). Cloud forest below Divide on Chiriqui Trail, Kirkbride & Duke 965 (MO, NY). Las Nubes, 2.7 mi NW of Rio Chiriqul Viejo W of Cerro Punta, 2200 m, Liesner 298 (DUKE, MO). Above Las Nubes, NW of Cerro Punta, 1900-2100 m, Luteyn 3803 (DUKE); Mori & Bolten 7252 (DUKE, MO). Finca Collins, Boquete, 5800-6700 ft, Stern, Eyde & Ayensu 2025 (MO, US). Between Bajo Quiel and Bajo Mono 6 mi NW of Boquete, 1450 m, Wilbur et al. 12016 (DUKE). Mossy forest, 7000 ft, E of Guadeloupe along the Rio Chiriqul Viejo 2 mi NE of Cerro Punta, Wilbur & Teeri 13100B (DUKE, MO). Wet mossy forest 7500 ft on NW side of Cerro Punta beyond Las Nubes, Wilbur & Teeri 13221 (DUKE, F, LL, MICH, MO, PMA). COCLE: Hills N of El Valle de Anton, 1000 m, Allen 2192 (A, MO), 2337 (MO). Trail to Cerro Pilon WEPCOR weather station, 1 km from top, 900 m, Correa 47 (FSU, SCZ). Cloud forest at La Mesa above El Valle, Croat 13409 (MO). La Mesa above El Valle, 800 m, Croat 25347 (DUKE, MO). Road past Furlong's Finca due N of Cerro Pilon, 880 m, Croat 37551 (MO). Cloud forest on slopes of Cerro Pilon near El Valle, 700-900 m, Duke 12130 (MO). Cloud forest, El Valle, 800-1000 m, Duke 13204 (MO). Foothills of Cerro Pilon near El Valle, Duke & Correa 14691 (MO). Between Cerro Pilon and El Valle, 700-900 m, Duke & Dwyer 13948 (DUKE, MO). El Valle, Dwyer 1936 (MO). Cerro Pilon, Dwyer 8354 (MO, NY). 8.5 mi from El Valle toward La Mesa, Dwyer 10535 (MO). El Valle de Anton at the foot of Cerro Pilon, ca. 2000 ft, Dwyer & Correa 8008 (DUKE, MO, SCZ). Cerro Galital, Caracoral, 2700 ft, Dwyer & Correa 8911 (MO). Cerro Pilon, 2700 ft, Dwyer & Lallathin 8649 (MO). Summit of Cerro Pilon above El Valle de Anton, 2700 ft, Dwyer et al. 4514 (MO). 2.5 mi W of El Valle, Gentry & Dwyer 3614 (DUKE, F). La Mesa above El Valle, 1000 m, Gentry 5654 (MO). La Mesa, N of El Valle, 1000 in, Gentry 6824 (DUKE, MO). Cloud forest, La Mesa, 800 m, Kennedy et al. 2089 (DUKE, MO). Cerro Caracoral, elfin forest, Kirkbride 1103 (MO). Cloud forest 6 mi N of El Valle de Anton, 1000 m, Luteyn 1158 (DUKE). La Mesa, 2.8-3.4 mi NW of El Valle de Anton, 850-900 in, Luteyn 4071 (DUKE). Road 8 mi N of El Valle de Anton, Luteyn & Kennedy 1725 (DUKE). La Mesa 4 km N of El Valle, 875 m, Nee & Dwyer 9140, Nee & Dwyer 9148, Nee & Dwyer 9625 (all MO). Cloud forest, along road from El Valle to La Mesa, 2400-2600 ft, Spellman et al. 584 (DUKE, MO). Near El Valle de Anton, Stockwell (DUKE). Above El Valle on road to La Mesa, 2500 ft, Tyson 6935 (PMA). El Valle de Anton, near La Mesa, 5 mi N of El Valle, Wilbur l& Luteyn 11747 (DUKE). 1000 m on La Mesa below the N rim, Wilbur et al. 11153 (DUKE, F, MO, NY, PMA, US). La Mesa 3 km N of El Valle de Anton, 850 m, Wilbur et al. 15651 (DUKE, MO). N rim of El Valle de Anton near Cerro Turega, 650-700 in, Woodson & Schery 184 (MO, NY). COLON: Trail at end of Santa Rita Ridge Road, 600-800 m, Moni & Crosby 6432 (MO). DARIEN: Cerro Pirre, Bristan 614 (MO). Trail from Pucuro to Cerro Mali, near La Laguna, ridge between Pucuro and Tapalisa Rivers, 820-840 m, Gentry & Mori 13553 (MO). Cloud forest and mossy forest, Cuasli-Cafia Trail between Cerro Campamiento and La Escalera to "Paramo," E of Tres Bocas, Kirkbride & Duke 1327 (MO, NY). N slopes of Cerro Pirre, 700-950 m, Mori & Kallunki 5475 (MO). PANAMA&: Despues de La Eneida, 750 m, Correa et al. 805 (DUKE, F, MO, PMA). Camino de Llano a Carti, 400 m, Correa et al. 1889 (DUKE, MO, PMA). 6 mi above Goofy Lake on road to Cerro Jefe, Croat 15217 (MO). Primary forest along newly cut road from El Llano to Carti-Tupile 12 mi above Panamerican Highway, 200-500 m, Croat 22855 (MO), 22865 (DUKE, MO). Summit of Cerro Jefe, Dwyer et al. 5026 (DUKE). Cerro Azul, 3000 ft, Goldman 1870 (US). 14-17.5 km on road from El Llano to Carti-Tupile, 200-500 m, Kennedy 2498 (F, MO, NY). Lowland cloud forest, between Cerro Azul and Cerro Jefe, 1000 m, Luteyn 3202 (DUKE, NY), 3210 (DUKE). Top of Cerro Jefe, 3000 ft, Luteyn & Kennedy 3970 (DUKE). El Llano-Carti Road, 18.8 km from Interamerican Highway, 350 m, Mori Kallunki 5133 (DUKE, MO). Ridge running NE of summit of Cerro Jefe, 1000 m, Mori Kallunki 6096 (DUKE). El Llano-Carti Road, 12.7 km from Interamerican Highway, 350 m, Moni et al. 4684 (MO). Top of Cerro Jefe, 3140 ft, Tyson 3587 (FSU, MO, SCZ). Cerro Jefe, Witherspoon 8549 (MO). VERAGUAS: Forested slopes of Cerro Tute, near Santa Fe, 3000 ft, Allen 4353 (MO, US). 5 mi W of Santa Fe on road past Escuela Agricola Alto Piedra on Pacific side of divide, 800-1200 m, Liesner 881 (DUKE, MO). Santa Fe, subiendo Cerro Tute, Mendieta 573 (PMA). 8.8 km from Escuela Agricola Alto de Piedra, Mori & Kallunki 3230 (DUKE, MO). Forest 6-7 km W of Santa Fe on new road past agriculture school, 2900 ft, Nee 9794 (DUKE, MO).
 
 
© 2024 Missouri Botanical Garden - 4344 Shaw Boulevard - Saint Louis, Missouri 63110