Tropicos | Name - Stemmadenia macrantha Standl.

Stemmadenia macrantha Standl.

Flora Data (Last Modified On 4/8/2013)

Species	Stemmadenia macrantha Standley
PlaceOfPublication	Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 4: 253. 1929.
Description	Tree, to 8 m, the stems glabrous. Leaves elliptic to weakly obovate, acuminate, obtuse basally, 8-11 cm long and 2-3.5 cm wide, glabrous, membranaceous; petioles ca. 2-4 mm long, weakly perfoliate and glandular in the axils. Inflores- cences racemose, axillary, the peduncle ca. 3 mm long. Flowers with the pedicels 2-4 mm long; bracteoles not apparent; calyx-lobes unequal, slender and oblong, ca. 10-22 mm long and 2-4 mm wide, glabrous; corolla subinfundibuliform, yellow, the tube proper ca. 23 mm long, the throat narrowly conic, ca. 40-45 mm long, the lobes obliquely obovate, ca. 25-30 mm long; stamens attached at the top of the corolla tube, the anthers ca. 4.2 mm long. Follicles unknown.
Habit	Tree
Distribution	Known only from the type collection.
Specimen	BOCAS DEL TORO: Kankintoe, 10 mi. above Holstein, Cooper 510 (F, holotype, US, isotype) .
Note	A description of the ovary and surrounding structures was omitted due to a paucity of material. Additional collections may prove that S. macrantha and S. lagunae Woodson are conspecific; only the length of the corolla throat separates the two species.