(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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Vaccinium poasanum Donnell Smith
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville) 24: 395. 1897.
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Note
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LECTOTYPE: Costa Rica, J. Donnell Smith 6634 (US).
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Description
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Epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs or small trees (1-) 2-5 (-10?) m tall with glabrous branchlets and branches. Leaves indistinctly 3-5-plinerved and also somewhat arcuately veined, coriaceous, glabrous or sparingly to moderately ap- pressed glandular strigose above and especially beneath, rarely short puberulent near the base, entire, slightly revolute, ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, acute to acuminate, 3-8 (-10) cm long, (1-) 2.5-4 (-6) cm wide; petioles 1-4 mm long, glabrous to hirsutulous. Inflorescences axillary, umbelliform racemes mostly 2-4 cm long; rachis glabrous to sparingly puberulent, 0.5-2 cm long; bracts per- sistent, lance ovate to lanceolate, ciliate, 1.5-2.5 mm long; pedicels slender, sparingly puberulent, 7-15 mm long in flower, the bractlets 2, submedial, subopposite, lance ovate to lanceolate, often persistent, ciliate, 1-1.5 mm long. Flowers with the hypanthium short campanulate to turbinate, 2-3.5 mm high and about equal in diameter, glabrous to densely puberulent, clearly disarticulat- ing from the pedicel by a marked groove and often with a fringe of glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; calyx limb 0.5-0.7 mm tall, the lobes 5, broadly and shallowly deltoid with an apiculate tip 0.2-0.5 mm long; corolla broadly cylin- dric, 8-12 mm long, 6-10 mm in diameter, externally and internally glabrous or apically sparsely, villose, pale yellowish or greenish white and occasionally tinged with bright rose or pink, the lobes 5, broadly oblong, 2-3.5 mm long, apically acute to obtuse, erect to slightly recurved; stamens 10, the filaments 2-2.5 mm long, ciliate, flattened, broadened basally where slightly adherent to the very base of the corolla tube, the thecae golden, attached slightly above the middle, granular, basally inwardly curved, 1.8-2.2 mm long, lacking horns or spurs but with slender yellowish tubules 3.5-5.5 mm long each with a slightly inwardly oblique pore; style greenish, 8-10 mm long. Berries succulent, yellowish but turning dark purple at maturity, subglobose, 7-10 mm in diameter.
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Habit
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shrubs or small trees
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Distribution
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This species is known from the mountains of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and western Panama and throughout much of its range it is abundant and often conspicuous.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Las Nubes, 5.5 km NW of Rio Chiriqui Viejo, W of Cerro Punta, 2200 m, Busey 665 (DUKE). Rain forest, Bajo Chorro, 6000 ft, Davidson 311 (A, F, US), 353 (A, F, MO, US). Premontane cloud forest along ridge E of Cerro Hor(quieta, 1700-1900 m, Luteyn & Wilbur 4599 (DUKE, MO); Luteyn & Wilbur 4622 (DUKE). Cerro Pando on the con- tinental divide and the Panama-Costa Rica border, 16 km NW of El Hato del Volcaln, 2000- 2482 m, Mori & Bolten 7332 (MO). Cerro Colorado 50 km N of San Felix on the continental divide, cloud forest, 1200-1500 m, Mori & Dressler 7777 (MO). Lower montane rain forest N of San Felix at Chiriqui Bocas del Toro border on Cerro Colorado copper mine road along continental divide, 5000-5500 ft, Mori & Kallunki 5890 (DUKE, MO). San Ramon near Bajo Mono 4 mi NW of Boquete, 6000 ft, Wilbur et al. 13528 (DUKE, MO, PMA). E of Guade- loupe along the Rio Chiriqui Viejo, 2 mi NE of Cerro Punta, 7000 ft, Wilbur & Foster 13114 (DUKE, MO, PMA). 6.6 km NNE of Boquete, Wilbur & Lutetyn 19226 (DUKE, MO). Cerro Punta beyond Las Nubes, 7500 ft, Wilbur & Teeri 13205 (DUKE).
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