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(Last Modified On 3/8/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/8/2013)
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Species
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PAVONIA SIDIFOLIA H. B. K.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Nov. Gen. Sp. P1. 5: 283. 1822.
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Synonym
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Asterochlaena sidifolia (H. B. K.) Hassler, Repert. Sp. Nov. 8: 114. 1910.
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Description
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Suffrutex or shrub up to 1.2 m high, the stem glandular-pilose and stellate- puberulus to stellate-velutinous. Leaves rather long-petiolate, the petiole terete, up to 4 cm long, glandular-pilose and stellate-puberulus to stellate-velutinous, the stipules subulate-filiform; blade ovate, cordate at the base, acute to acuminate at the apex, crenate-serrate at the margin, up to 8 cm long and 5 cm wide, discolorous, green above and whitish beneath, 7- to 9-palminerved, stellate-puberulus and sometimes also glandular-pilose on the upper surface, stellate-tomentellous or stellate-velutinous and with the venation prominent on the lower surface. Flowers solitary in the upper leaf axils, long-pedicellate, the pedicel slender, articulated below the apex, up to 7 cm long, stellate-puberulus to stellate-tomentellous and with some long, simple hairs above the articulation, sometimes also glandular- pilose; epicalyx of 6-9 bractlets, these distinct, narrowly ovate, short-unguiculate, long-acuminate at the apex, 10-20 mm long and 2.5-5 mm wide, stellate-tomen- tellous and with some long, simple hairs along the margin; calyx cupuliform, lobed to about the middle, 5-10 mm long, stellate-tomentellous, the lobes deltoid, acute; petals cuneate-obovate, short-unguiculate, rounded at the apex, 18-25 mm long, yellow, reddish at the base; staminal tube short, about 1/3 as long as the corolla, dentate, antheriferous throughout; style slightly longer than the staminal tube, the stigmas capitate and fimbrillate. Mericarps triquetrous-obovoid, gibbously obtuse and muticous at the apex, convex and longitudinally carinate dorsally, 3-4 mm long, coriaceous, inconspicuously rugose-reticulate, sparsely and very minutely tuberculate-papillate; seeds trigonous-reniform, ca 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous.
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Habit
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Suffrutex shrub
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Distribution
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Panama, Venezuela to Peru.
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Specimen
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LOS SANTOS: Monagre Beach, in field at edge of beach, Dwyer 4154 (MO).
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Note
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This is the first collection of P. sidifolia in Panama, as well as in North America; it can be referred to the subsp. diuretica (St.-Hil.) Guirke in Mart., Fl. Bras. 12(3): 509. 1892 (P. diuretica St.-Hil., P1. Us. Bras. pl. 53. 1827).
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