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(Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
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Species
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PIPER SAMBUANUM C.DC.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Smiths. Misc. Coll. 716:13. 1920.
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Description
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A shrub (?), nodose, glabrous; flowering internodes slender and short, obscurely granular and glandular-dotted; leaves lance-elliptic to obliquely lanceolate, apex acuminate, base inequilateral with one side about 2 mm. shorter, obtuse or the longer side subcordulate, 5-6.5 cm. wide X 13-17 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the upper third, the nerves about 4 on each side, or 5 with the lower- most obscure, with rather strong cross-connecting-anastomosing nervules, gland- ular-dotted, drying papery, translucent, pellucid-dotted; petiole about 3 plus 2 mm. long, stout, vaginate-winged to the lower blade margin; spikes 2 mm. thick X 8-10 cm. long; peduncle scarcely 1 cm. long, stoutish; bracts small, round- or triangular- subpeltate, marginally ciliolate; ovary glabrous; stigmas sessile; fruit not developed.
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Habit
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shrub
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Distribution
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Known only from Sambui basin, Darien.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: foothills of Garagara', Sambu' basin, alt. 30-500 m., Pittier 5663, 5726.
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Note
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The glabrous, glandular-dotted, nodose twigs, short-petioled leaves, and slender spikes characterize this species.
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