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Flora Data (Last Modified On 7/24/2013)
Species Vaccinium poasanum Donnell Smith
PlaceOfPublication Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville) 24: 395. 1897.
Note LECTOTYPE: Costa Rica, J. Donnell Smith 6634 (US).
Description 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.
Habit shrubs or small trees
Distribution 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.
Specimen 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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