Tropicos | Name - Grammadenia linearifolia Lundell

Grammadenia linearifolia Lundell

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

Species	Grammadenia linearifolia Lundell
PlaceOfPublication	Wrightia 4: 70. 1968.-FIG. 3.
Description	Shrubs, branchlets thick, glabrous. Leaves sessile, glabrous, chartaceous, linear or narrowly oblanceolate-linear, 5.5-9 cm long and 7-12 mm wide, rounded basally, acutish and apiculate apically, sparsely orange-punctate. Inflorescences axillary, slender, racemose, to 6.5 cm long, sparsely glandular- puberulent, the bracts membranaceous, ovate or oblong-elliptic, 1-2 mm long, orange-punctate; pedicels 2.5-4 mm long. Flotwers glabrous; sepals ovate- triangular, ca. 0.7 mm long, orange-punctate; petals imbricate, broadly ovate, 1.2-1.4 mm long, orange-punctate; anthers subsessile, small, orange-punctate dorsally; ovary punctate, the ovules 2.
Habit	Shrubs
Distribution	Native to Panama.
Native	Panama
Specimen	BOCAS DEL TORO: Robaldo Trail, N slopes of Cerro Horqueta, 6000-7000 ft, Allen 4803 (MO, holotype).
Note	An epiphytic shrub growing in the tops of giant trees, Grammadenia linearifolia is known only from a single twig. Its noteworthy features include the long, essentially linear leaves, almost as wide at the base as medially, the long slender racemes of pale greenish-yellow flowers on elongated pedicels, and the orange glands on all parts. The margin of the leaves is hyaline, and the submarginal vein is well developed.