(Last Modified On 5/8/2013)
|
|
(Last Modified On 5/8/2013)
|
Species
|
Weigeltia spectabilis (Standley) Lundell
|
PlaceOfPublication
|
Wrightia 4: 169. 1971.-FIG. 9-10.
|
Synonym
|
Ardisia spectabilis Standley, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 18: 893. 1938. Weigeltia triandra Asplund, Bot. Not. 1939: 802. fig. 5a-d, 6. 1939.
|
Description
|
Shrubs, to 2 m high, the stems thick, at first with minute appressed red- glandular indument, glabrate. Leaves large, appearing verticillate, crowded at the apex of the stems, petiolate, the petioles thick, to 2 cm long, marginate to the base; leaf blades thin, subchartaceous, oblong-oblanceolate or oblanceo- late, to 55 cm long and 15 cm wide, broadly acute or acuminate apically, attenuate and decurrent on the petiole basally, margin remotely serrulate or
|
Habit
|
Shrubs
|
Description
|
entire, the primary lateral veins 9-12 pairs, the midvein narrow and elevated above, prominent beneath, the lateral nerves slender and widely ascending, the veins reticulate, the entire surface striolate. Inflorescences paniculate, in the axils of foliaceous bracts at the apex of elongated stems, the bracts to 6 cm long; the axillary panicles to 25 cm long, including a peduncle to 15 cm long, strongly ascending, with short lateral branches, the lower to 2.5 cm long, the indument red minute and apparently glandular. Staminate flowers 3-merous, racemose, crowded, the pedicels 1-2 mm long; sepals ovate, 1-1.2 mm long, ciliolate, densely black-punctate medially and basally, with a wide hyaline margin; petals glabrous, oblong-elliptic, 3-3.5 mm long, conspicuously maculate with conspicuous black glands, rounded apically, nearly glabrous; stamens attached ca. 0.8 mm above the base of the corolla, to 2.6 mm long, the fila- ments free, well-developed, 1.6-2.2 mm long, the anthers eglandular, cordate, ca. 0.5 mm long, rounded; gynoecium rudimentary.
|
Distribution
|
Costa Rica, Panama, and probably Colombia.
|
Specimen
|
PANAMA: Cerro Campana, 8,00 m, Allen 3965 (LL, MO).
|
Note
|
This species is close to Weigeltia schlimii (Hook. f.) Mez, but appears to be sufficiently different to be recognized. The eglandular anthers, smaller flowers, and sepals and petals densely punctate with red-black glands are distinguishing features. From description and illustrations, W. triandra Asplund, described from Colombia, belongs here.
|
Tag
|
|
Project Name
|
Tag
|
|
|