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(Last Modified On 8/6/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/6/2013)
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Species
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Columnea anisophylla DC.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Prodr. 7: 542. 1839.
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Note
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TYPE: "America australi," Poeppig 1080 (G-DC; IDC 800. 1362: III. 5).
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Synonym
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Nematanthus heterophyllus Poepp. in Poepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen. Sp. P1. 3: 4, tab. 203. 1840. TYPE: Pampayaco, Peru, Poeppig 1080 (W, holotype, photo, US). Ortholoma vestitum Klotzsch ex Oerst., Cent. Gesn. 51. 1858. TYPE: "Costa Rica and Veragua," Warscewicz 21 (193) (not seen). 0rtholoma warscewiczianum Klotzsch ex Oerst., Cent. Gesn. 51. 1858. TYPE: "Costa Rica and Veragua," Warscewicz 30 (K, L, P, isotypes). Columnea warscewicziana (Klotzsch ex Oerst.) Hanst., Linnaea 34: 392. 1865. Ortholoma anisophyllum (DC.) Wiehl., Phytologia 27: 320. 1973. Trichantha anisophylla (DC.) Wiehl., Selbyana 1; 34. 1975.
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Description
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Epiphytic herbs; stems 3-5 mm in diam., pale or dark brown, villous or hirsute. Leaves of a pair strongly unequal, the larger leaves lanceolate to oblan- ceolate, 7.3-14.7 cm long and 1.8-3.4 cm wide, the apex acuminate, strongly oblique at the base, more or less serrate, green above, densely hirsute, hairs brown, 4-6 celled, more numerous on the midrib and the veins, beneath green, densely hirsute, hairs brown, 5-8 celled, more numerous on the midrib and the veins, also 2-3 celled white adpressed hairs; petioles 1-3 mm long; smaller leaves lanceolate, 0.9-1.8 cm long and 2-7 mm wide, acuminate, oblique at the base, green. Flowers solitary or paired; bracts 2.5-4 mm long, linear, entire, brown hirsute; pedicels 2.3-3.8 cm long, brown hirsute; calyx lobes lanceolate, 0.8-1.3 cm long, long acuminate, irregularly subulate toothed, the lobes to 1 mm long, green brown hirsute; corollas scarlet outside, the inside yellow, ventricose, 3.3- 5.4 cm long, ca. 5 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 1.9 cm in diam., contracted at the throat to ca. 1.0 cm in diam., the lobes unequal, the posterior pair partly connate, remainder spreading and 0.7-1.0 cm long, the corolla ex- ternally sparsely reddish pilose, internally glabrous; filaments yellow, pilose, the anthers included; ovary sericeous, the style yellow, glabrous, the stigma stomatomorphic. Fruits ovoid, ca. 1.0 cm in diam.; seeds fusiform, 1 mm or more long, twisted, yellow to brown. Chromosomes 2n = 18 (Sherk, 1960).
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Habit
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herbs
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Distribution
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known from Costa Rica to Peru, in Panama
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it grows in rain forest. CHIRIQUI: Bajo Mono-Robalo Trail, W slopes of Cerro Horqueta, 5000-7000 ft, Allen 4833 (GH, MO, NY, US). Cerro Horqueta, 7000 ft, Blum & Dwyer 2595 (F, FSU, MO, MO, SCZ). Bajo Chorro, Rio Caldera, Butcher s.n. (US) Bajo Chorro, 6000 ft, Davidson 406 (CH, MO, US). Road from Boquete to Finca Lerida, 2000 m, Dressler & Williams 4011 (MO, PMA). Upper Caldera River above El Boquete, 1450-1650 m, Maxon 5703 (US). Cuesta de Las Palmas, S slope of Cerro de la Horqueta, 1700-2100 m, Pittier 3215 (US, US). 5 km NE of Boquete, 1700-1800 m, Skog et al. 4035, 4040 (both MO, US). Above Rio Caldera beyond Bajo Mono, 1800 m, Wilbur et al. 11064 (DUKE, MO). Above village of San Ramon near Bajo Mono, 4 mi NW of Boquete, 6000 ft, Wilbur et al. 13539 (DUKE). Bajo Mono and Quebrada Chiquero, 1500 m, Woodson & Schery 598 (MO).
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