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

Flora Data (Last Modified On 7/24/2013)
Species Thibaudia costaricensis Hoerold
PlaceOfPublication Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 311. 1909.
Description Usually epiphytic shrubs; branches elongate to 2 m long; branchlets terete, cinereous, glabrous. Leaves chartaceous or thin coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate oblong, to elliptic, (10-)12-24 cm long, (1.7-)3.5-5(-7.5) cm wide, basally cuneate, apically caudate acuminate, marginally entire and slightly revolute, superficially glabrous or with inconspicuous glandular strigillose trichomes on both the sur- faces, 5-plinerved, the secondary nerves originating near the base, the midvein impressed above and prominently raised beneath, the veinlets reticulate and slightly raised on both the surfaces; petioles glabrous, 2-3(-4) mm long. In- florescences axillary or cauliflorous, numerous, racemose, or paniculate, 15-30- flowered, the rachis slender, 2-5 cm long, laxly and sparsely puberulous or gla- brous; pedicel reddish or pinkish, subterete, glabrous or puberulous, distally slightly swollen, 10-16 mm long; bract minute, deciduous, 1-1.5 mm long; bracteoles 2, submedial, deciduous 0.8-1.2 mm long with a sharply delineated disarticulation groove at the base of the flower. Flowers with the hypanthium rugose, sparsely puberulous or glabrous, pinkish to roseate, ca. 2 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter, campanulate, the calyx limb 1-2 mm long including the lobes, erect or spreading, the lobes acute, 0.5-1 mm long, sometimes cartilaginous; corolla tube 9-10 mm long, cylindric, white, 3-3.5 mm in diameter, slightly contracted at the base and at the throat, the lobes 1-1.5 mm long; stamens 10, ca. 7 mm long, equal or almost so; filaments brown, membranous, firmly con- nate into a glabrous tube 2-3 mm long; anther sacs smooth to slightly granular, ca. 2 mm long, the tubules wide, flexible, completely free ca. 3 mm long opening introrsely by elongate, oval clefts about 1/2 as long as the tubule; stigma broadly peltate, ca. 1 mm in diameter, the style exserted 1-2 mm at maturity.
Habit shrubs
Note This distinctive and relatively uniform species is the only representative of the genus in Central America.
Distribution endemic to the mountains of western Panama and central Costa Rica.
Specimen BOCAS DEL TORO: Robalo Trail, N slopes of Cerro Horqueta, 6000-7000 ft, Allen 4808 (GH, MO, NY, US). CHIRIQUI: Bajo Chorro, Boquete District, 6000 ft, Davidson 380 (A, F, MO, US). Along path in rain forest, Boquete Region, 6500 ft, Hagen 2023 (A, NY). Pre- montane rain forest between Pinola and Quebrada Hondo toward summit, Kirkbride & Duke 880 (MO, NY). Bajo Chorro trail towards Boquete from Cerro Punta, 7000 ft, Luteyn 3057, 3063 (both DUKE). Heavily forested slopes along ridge on the W side of Cerro Horqueta, 1700-1800 m, Luteyn 3760 (DUKE).
 
 
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