Tropicos | Name - !Forsteronia spicata (Jacq.) G. Mey.

!Forsteronia spicata (Jacq.) G. Mey.

Flora Data (Last Modified On 4/10/2013)

Species	Forsteronia spicata (Jacq.) G. Meyer
PlaceOfPublication	Prim. Fl. Essequeb. 135. 1818.- FIG. 2 0.
Synonym	Echites spicata Jacq., Enum. Syst. PI. Carib. 13. 1760.
Description	Lianas, sometimes shrub-like, the younger stems softly pubescent. Leaves opposite, glandular at the base of the midrib, elliptic to obovate, to 1i cm long and 7 cm wide, ? glabrous to sparsely pubescent above, pubescent on the veins
Habit	Lianas
Description	beneath, a tuft of hair in the axils, membranaceous; petioles ca. 5-9 mm long. Inflorescences spicate, thyrsiform near the base, terminal or axillary and opposite, to ca. 6 cm long. Flowers + sessile; calyx lobes deltoid, somewhat keeled, ca. 2.5-3.5 mm long, the margins fimbriolate, bearing 1-2 squamallae within; corolla subcampanulate, white, glabrous externally, the tube ca. 2 mm long, densely pubescent within, the lobes oblong, ca. 4 mm long; stamens wholly exserted, the filaments ca. 2 mm long, the anthers ca. 2 mm long; ovary apocarpous basally, syncarpous above, pubescent, the nectaries ca. 5, shorter than the ovary, the stigma pentagonal. Follicles ? united, continuous, scabrous, ca. 17 cm long; seeds ca. 1 cm long, the testa pubescent.
Distribution	Southern Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and Colombia.
Specimen	COCLE: 1-5 mi. S of Anton on road to coast, Tyson & Blum 2574 (MO). PANAMA: San Jose Island, Erlanson 95, 258 (both US). Taboga Island, Woodson et al. 1551 (MO).