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(Last Modified On 11/19/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/19/2012)
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Species
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PIPER DARIENENSE C.DC.
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PlaceOfPublication
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DC. Prodr. 161:374. 1869.
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Synonym
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Ottonia glaucescens Miq. in Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, 200. 1854, not Piper glaucescens Jacq. Piper dariense C.DC. in Candollea 1:168. 1923. Piper laxispicum Trel. in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26:24. 1927. Piper laxispicum var. latifolium Trel. loc. cit. 1927. Piper Permari Trel. in Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 27:295. 1940. Piper fagopyricarpum Trel. loc. cit. 28:426. 1941.
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Description
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A glabrous shrub, mostly scarcely 0.5 m. tall; stems simple or occasionally branched, 2-3 mm. thick, somewhat finely striate, greenish; leaves oblong-elliptic, subovate or lance-elliptic, 3-7 or sometimes 8 cm. wide X 12-19 cm. long, apex attenuately sharp-acuminate, base narrowed, subequilaterally acute or rounded and obtuse, minutely auriculate at the petiole, pinnately nerved throughout, the midrib rather prominent beneath, the lateral nerves slender, 6-9 on each side, divergent and submarginally loop-connected, drying green above, paler and subglaucous be- neath, membranous, translucent; petiole mostly scarcely 5 mm. long, longitudinally striate, scarcely vaginate at the very base; spikes 3-5 mm. thick X 3-5 cm. long when mature; peduncle about 5 mm. long; rachis smooth or obscurely papillate; bracts cupulate, glabrous; fruit mostly exserted, free, globose-tetragonous, smooth or obscurely papillate, stigmas short, 3-4, on a short, stout style.
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Habit
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shrub
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Distribution
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Panama and northern Colombia.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: upper Changuinola River, Permar s. n.; vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel I042. CHIRIQUI: vicinity of Puerto Armuelles, alt. 0-75 m., Woodson & Schery 852. CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Gat'n Lake, Sthdley 3I375; Mexia 655I; Bailey & Bailey 88. PANAMA: Indio, Madden Lake, Miller 2065-leaves maximum size, as described. SAN BLAS: forests around Puerto Obaldia, alt. 0-50 m., Pittier 4288.
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Note
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The type specimen did not have a sufficiently matured spike to show the char- acters of the fruit, which are significant in this species. The description of the vegetative characters, however, agrees in all respects with the other specimens in- cluded here. It was reported by Seemann as being used by the Indians for stupeyf- ing fish. Mexia made the same report for the specimen she collected on Barro Colorado Island.
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