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(Last Modified On 8/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/7/2013)
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Species
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Columnea sanguinolenta (Klotzsch ex Oerst.) Hanst
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Linnaea 34: 389. 1865.
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Synonym
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Stenanthus sanguinolentus Klotzsch ex Oerst., Cent. Gesrn. 49. 1858. TYPE: "Veragua," Panamat, Warscewicz (B, not seen). Stenanthus squarrosus Klotzsch ex Oerst., Cent. Gesn. 49. 1858. TYPE: "Veragua," Panamai, Warscewicz (B, not seen). Columnea costaricensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 2: 471. 1891. TYPE: Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Kuntze (NY). Crantzia costaricensis (Kuntze) Fritsch, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4( 3B): 168. 1894. Ortholoma sanguinolentum (Klotzsch ex Oerst.) Wiehl., Phytologia 27: 323. 1973. Trichantha sanguinolenta (Klotzsch ex Oerst.) Wiehl., Selbyana 1: 35. 1975.
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Description
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Suffrutescent herbs or shrubs, epiphytic or terrestrial; stems to 3 mn long, 3-5 mm or more in diam., densely strigose near the tip. Leaves of a pair unequal, the larger leaf lanceolate to oblanceolate, 8.5-14.3 cm long and 2.5-4.4 cm wide, the apex acuminate, rounded or oblique at the base, serrulate or entire, above green, glabrous, red spotted beneath (often two spots), strigose, hairs trans- parent, 3-9 celled, more numerous on the veins, also 2-3 celled white adpressed hairs; petioles 2-5 mm long; smaller leaves lanceolate, 0.7-2.3 cm long and 2-7 mm wide, acuminate, oblique at the base, green. Flowers solitary or paired; bracts lanceolate, 3-8 mm long, entire, acute, glabrous above but strigose beneath, the pedicels 1.8-4.4 cm long, transparent or reddish hirsute; calyx lobes pectinate, 2.3-3.0 cm long, 8-9 toothed. the teeth 4-8 mm long, green or reddish, reddish hirsute; corollas scarlet, ventricose, 3.8-4.4 cm long, ca. 4 mm in diam. above base, becoming ca. 1.3 cm in diam., contracted at the throat to ca. 8 mm in diam., externally sparsely reddish pilose, internally glabrous, the lobes slightly unequal, the posterior pair partly connate, the remainder spreading and 5-6 mm long; filaments papillose below, the anthers included; ovary sericeous, the style glandular above, the stigma bilobed. Fruits about 1.0 cm in diam.
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Habit
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herbs or shrubs
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Distribution
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known from Costa Rica and Panama
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Dunlap 449 (US). N of Rio Teribe, across from Quebrada Huron behind Chief's House, 90-270 m, Kirkbride & Duke 567A (F, MO, SCZ). Duwebdulup Peak, N of Rio Teribe across from Quebrada Huron, 300-900 ft, Kirkbride & Duke 567B (MO, NY, REED). Punta Rovalo to Rovalo River, Seibert 1562 (MO, US). Water Valley, Wedel 942 (MO, US). Chiriqui Lagoon, Wedel 1032 (US). Water Valley, Chiriqui Lagoon, Wedel 1513 (MO). Fish Creek Mountains, Chiriqui Lagoon, Wedel 2310 (GH, MO, US), 2325 (MO, US).
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