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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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Species
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COUSSAPOA BREVIPES Pittier
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PlaceOfPublication
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Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18:225. 1917.
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Description
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Epiphytic shrubs, the branches relatively stout, glabrate. Leaves broadly oval, obtuse to rounded at the tip and at the base, crenate, 10-17 cm. long, 6-11 cm. broad, subcoriaceous, inconspicuously arachnoid beneath to nearly glabrate, the venation rather typically and closely pinnate, with about 11 to 14 pairs of secondaries, the tertiary venation densely parallel and forming a delicate uniform reticulum, the petioles 4-6 cm. long; stipules 4-7 cm. long, minutely and densely arachnoid-puberulent. Staminate inflorescences unknown. Pistillate inflorescences apparently simple, subsessile, the heads about 1 cm. broad at anthesis.
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Habit
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shrub
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Distribution
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Panama in lowland forests.
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Specimen
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SAN BLAS: Sperdi, near Puerto Obaldia, Pittier 4386.
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Note
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A puzzling species, possibly present in Colombia also.
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