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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 parviflora Morton
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PlaceOfPublication
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J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 35: 127. 1945.
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Note
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TYPE: Tutunendo, 20 km N of Quibdo, Choco, Colombia, Archer 2145 (US, holotype)
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Synonym
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Ortholoma parviflorum (Morton) Wiehl., Phytologia 27: 322. 1973. Trichantha parviflora (Morton) Wiehl., Selbyana 1: 35. 1975.
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Description
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Epiphytic herbs or subshrubs; stems erect or ascending, somewhat zig-zag, 30-35 cm long, 3-5 mm in diam., reddish, densely hirsute. Leaves strongly un- equal in a pair, the larger leaf broadly elliptic, 4.5-9.5 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, chartaceous, the apex acute to obtuse, the base acute, oblique, serrulate, above dark green, strigose to pilose, below green or reddish; petioles 0.5-10 mm long, hirsute; smaller leaves much reduced, lanceolate, to 1 cm long. Inflorescences in the upper axils, of 2-5 flowers, the peduncles lacking; bracts minute; pedicels nearly sessile, less than 5 mm long, red, hirsute to sericeous. Flowers in- conspicuous; calyx lobes distinct, unequal, orange to red, densely hirsute, the posterior lobe erect, lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, entire, the other lobes broadly ovate, 7-9 mm long, denticulate; corolla yellow, erect in the calyx, the tube gibbous at the base, cylindric above, not ventricose, 7-8 mm long, the outside sericeous, inside glabrous, the limb nearly regular, ca. 3 mm across, the lobes erect, 1 mm long; stamens included, the filaments glabrous, the anthers minute, ca. 1 mm long; disc of a single or bibbed gland; ovary pilose; style glabrous, the stigma bibbed. Fruit depressed globose, white, pilose, surrounded by the persistent calyx; seeds oblong, less than 1 mm long, striate, light brown.
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Habit
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herbs or subshrubs
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Distribution
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Originally described from Colombia, Columnea parviflora is now believed to be more common in Panama especially frequent in the province of Veraguas.
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Note
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This species has perhaps the smallest corollas of any Columnea, only 7-8 mm long.
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Specimen
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COCLE: Summit, Alto Calvario, 7 km N of El Cope, 850 m, Folsom & Button 3285 (US). El Petroso, at Rivera's sawmill, 7 km beyond El Cope, premontane rain forest, 800 m, Skog et al. 4200 (US). DARIEN: Upper gold mining camp of Tyler Kittredge on headwaters of Rio Tuquesa ca. 2 air km from continental divide, Croat 27266 (MO). PANAMA: Road to Carti 19 km N of El Llano, 500 m, Busey 899 (US). Camino de Llano a Carti entre los 14 a 18 km de la carretera a Chepo, 400 m, Correa et al. 1863 (PMA). VERAGUAS: Rio Segundo Brazo 8 km beyond Escuela Agricola Alto Piedra beyond Santa F6, 750 m, Croat 25569 (MO). Be- yond Rio Tres Brazos 9 km from Santa Fe, Croat 25587 (MO). Beyond Tres Brazos River along steep descent 11 km beyond Santa Fe, 650 m, Croat 25611 (MO, PMA). Valley of Rio Dos Bocas, 11 km from Escuela Agricola Alto Piedra above Santa Fe on road to Calovebora, 450 m, Croat 27530A (MO). First river on road between Alto Piedra School and Rio Calovebora, 1.8 mi beyond school, 500 m, Croat & Folsom 34092 (MO). Base of Cerro Tute, 6.5 km outside of Santa Fe, Folsom 3043 (MO, US). NW of Santa Fe, 8.8 km from Escuela Agricola Alto de Piedra, on road to Calovebora, 1900 ft, Mori 6652 (MO). 11 km from Escuela Agricola Alto de Piedra, in forest along Rio Dos Bocas, Atlantic slope, Mori & Kallunki 3127 (MO). 7 km W of Santa Fe on road past agricultural school, 2900 ft, Nee 11154 (MO). Ca. 2 km N of Cerro Tute, Witherspoon & Witherspoon 8828 MO, US).
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