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(Last Modified On 1/14/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/14/2013)
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Species
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ORYCTANTHUS SPICATUS (Jacq.) Eichl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Mart. Fl. Bras. 5, pt. 2:89. 1868.
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Synonym
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Loranthus spicatus Jacq. Enum. P1. Carib. 18. 1760.
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Description
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An erect shrub 50-70 cm. tall. Branches terete, the slightly compressed tips, with petioles (1-5 mm. long) and rachis, reddish-scurfy but becoming more or less glabrous. Leaf blades ovate, sometimes orbicular-ovate, rounded at the base, moderately attenuate to the blunt apex, thickly leathery, lightly nerved (rarely nerveless), to 9 cm. long, 5 cm. broad. Spikes solitary, to 2 cm. long, stouter than in the preceding; peduncles to 5 mm. long. Bractlets not distinct from the rachis. Flowers or buds 1 mm. long, oblique to the rachis. Fruit ovate-oblong, about 5 mm. long, the apex evidently exceeded by the margin of the persistent calyculus.
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Habit
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shrub
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Distribution
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West Indies, South and Central America.
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Specimen
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ANAL ZONE: near Vigia and San Juan on Rio Pequeni, Dodge, Steyermark d Allen I6577; Ancon Hill, vicinity of Balboa, Seibert 380, 4I0; Barro Colorado Island, Shattuck 590 and Wilson i5i; Gatu'n Lake, Weetmore & Abbe I48; Woodworth & Vestal 494. CHIRIQUf: Gualaca, Allen 5025. COCLE: Penonome, Williams I95. PANAMA: Tumba Muerto Road, Standley 2983i; near Punta Paitilla, Standley 26249.
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Note
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The morphological facts by which 0. occidentalis differs from 0. spicatus are minute and tedious ones. Notwithstanding, and worth noting, additional characters may be found in the spikes: in the first species these are slender, blackish and supported by a peduncle longer than 5 mm.; in the second, the spikes are stouter, reddish-brown and short-peduncled or even sessile.
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