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(Last Modified On 7/24/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/24/2013)
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Species
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Themistoclesia smithiana (Standley) Sleumer
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 71: 392. 1941.
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Synonym
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Vaccinium smithianum Standl., Fieldiana, Bot. 18: 833. 1938. TYPE: Costa Rica, Standley & Valerio 51858 (F, holotype; US, isotype).
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Description
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Pendent to spreading, epiphytic shrublet mostly 2-3(-4.5) dm tall; stems terete slender, brown or reddish brown to grayish when dry, densely to moderately pilosulose with hyaline trichomes 0.2-0.5 mm long, maturing to glabrate. Leaves thickly coriaceous, distichous, concave, lanceolate to ovate lanceolate, (0.7-) 1.0-1.5(-1.8) cm long, (3.0-)6.0-8.0 mm wide, basally acute to rounded, apically acute to acuminate, entire, inconspicuously but copiously pilosulose above when young becoming glabrate, the trichomes slender, spreading, ca. 0.2 mm long, beneath glabrous except for reddish brown, minute, glandular trichomes 0.1 mm long or less; venation obscure above except the midvein sunken above and completely obscured beneath; petiole terete, densely hispid- ulous, 0.5-1.5 mm long. Inflorescences of axillary, solitary flowers; bracts several, basal; floral bract ovate, pilosulose, ca. 0.8 mm long; pedicel terete, pilosulose, 1.0-1.2 mm long; bracteoles linear to linear oblong, reddish brown, pilosulose, 0.4-0.6 mm long. Flowers with the hypanthium copiously pilosulose with hyaline trichomes 0.3-0.6 mm long, the tube obconic, terete, ca. 2.5 mm long at anthesis; calyx limb ca. 0.7 mm long, the triangular, acute lobes 1.2- 1.5 mm long; corolla pale yellow to pale greenish white or white, terete or ob- scurely 5-lobed, broadly ovoid, abruptly narrowed at the throat, 3-3.5 mm long, 2.5-3 mm in diameter near the base and 0.8-1.0 mm in diameter at the throat, glabrous for the basal 4/5, pilosulose distally, the lobes linear oblong, 0.5-0.8 mm long, erect or weakly flaring; stamens 10, equal, ca. 2.5 mm long or about as long as the corolla tube, the filaments slender, terete, glabrous, attached medially to the back of the anther sac, the anther ca. 1.5 mm long including the tubules, smooth, the 2 separate tubules on each anther 0.8-1.0 mm long and dehiscing by an introrse cleft ca. 0.6 mm long, the thecae smooth, 0.6-0.8 mm long, straight; style ca. 3 mm long. Berry inconspicuously angled, 5-7 mm long, ca. 4 mm in diameter, bluish.
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Habit
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shrublet
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Distribution
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known only from central Costa Rica and from western Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Cloud forest N of San Felix at Chiriqui-Bocas del Toro border, on Cerro Colo- rado copper mine road along the continental divide, Moni & Kallunki 5910 (MO). VERAGUAS: On ridgetop in cloud forest, Cerro Tute 10 km NW of Santa Fe, above 1000 m, Mori et al. 7592 (MO).
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