Tropicos | Name - Ardisia antonensis Lundell

Ardisia antonensis Lundell

Flora Data (Last Modified On 5/8/2013)

Species	Ardisia antonensis Lundell
PlaceOfPublication	Wrightia 4: 44. 1968.-FIG. 20.
Description	Trees, to 30 m high, the branchlets thick, at first minutely peradpressed lepidote. Leaves petiolate, the petioles thick, marginate, 7-12 mm long; leaf blades entire, coriaceous, oblanceolate, 13-22 cm long and 4.5-6.8 cm wide, acuminate apically, obtuse or acutish basally, decurrent, glabrous above, densely and minutely peradpressed lepidote beneath, the costa shallowly sulcate above, thick and elevated beneath, the primary lateral veins slender and evident on both surfaces. Inflorescences terminal, rarely appearing axillary, paniculate, 5-8 cm long, glabrous. Flowers 5-merous, orange-red punctate, glabrous, um- bellate; pedicels slender, 5-7 mm long; sepals ovate, ca. 1.2 mm long, erose, punctate with orange-red glands; petals oblong, 4 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, connate ca. 1 mm basally to form a tube; stamens ca. 2.5 mm long, the filaments ca. 1 mm long, attached at the middle of the corolla tube, the anthers lanceolate-oblong, 2 mm long,- subtruncate apically, concolorous, epunctate; ovary glabrous, ovoid, the ovules pluriseriate, numerous, the style slender, 4 mm long.
Habit	Trees
Distribution	Native to Panama.
Native	Panama
Specimen	COCLE: El Valle de Anton, 1000 m, Allen 3418 (MO, holotype; F, LL, isotypes).
Note	This is an exceptionally large tree for the genus. The minute lepidote indument of the lower surfaces of the leaves is suggestive of Ardisia fur- furacella Standl.