Tropicos | Name - Ardisia darienensis Lundell

Ardisia darienensis Lundell

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

Species	Ardisia darienensis Lundell
PlaceOfPublication	Wrightia 4: 58. 1968.
Description	Trees, 3-5 m high, branchlets thick, furfuraceous with closely appressed ferruginous scales. Leaves subsessile, the short thick broadly marginate pet- ioles to 1 cm long; leaf blades chartaceous, entire, paler and ferruginous below, the lower surface furfuraceous with appressed scales, obovate, obovate- elliptic, or oblanceolate, 11-23 cm long and 5-9.5 cm wide, abruptly short- acuminate apically, the acumen acute, rounded basally, decurrent on the petiole, the costa impressed above, prominent beneath, the primary lateral veins slender and widely arcuate, scarcely discernible above. Inflorescences treminal, tripinnately paniculate, to 25 cm long and wide, few-branched, the branches thick and flexuous, open, appressed-furfuraceous. Flowers 5- merous, racemose, the apical approximate or subglomerate, the lower remote in the racemes; fruiting pedicels thick, rigid, 3-6 mm long; sepals coriaceous, ovate, ca. 5 mm long, erose-ciliate, rounded apically, free nearly to the base, black-punctate, lepidote. Fruit globose, ca. 1 cm in diameter.
Habit	Trees
Distribution	Native to Panama.
Native	Panama
Specimen	DARIEN: Chepigana District, crest of Cana-Cuasi Trail, in rain forest, 55500 ft, Terry & Terry 1563 (F, holotype; MO, isotype). C'erro Pirre, Bristan 593 (MO); 2,500-4500 ft, Duke & Elias 13750 (LL); cloud forest, 3700 ft, Duke 6561 (LL)