Tropicos | Name - Matelea mediocris Woodson

Matelea mediocris Woodson

Flora Data (Last Modified On 5/30/2013)

Species	Matelea mediocris Woodson
PlaceOfPublication	Fieldiana: Bot. 28: 510. 1953.
Note	TYPE: Venezuela, Bolivar, Steyermark 60690 (F, MO).
Description	Slender vines; stems glabrous or glabrate except for minute hairs at the nodes. Leaves broadly lanceolate to ovate, glabrous, dark green and shiny above, lighter beneath, apically rounded and submucronate, basally rounded to nearly cuneate, mostly 6.5-12 cm long and 3-5.5 cm wide; petioles 7-12 mm long. Inflorescences racemose, fewer than 10-flowered; peduncles 2-4 mm long; pedicels 5-10 mm long. Flowers small, calyx lobes glabrate, lanceolate-ovate, ca. 1.5-2 mm long and 1 mm wide; corolla rotate, green with darker prominent veins, glabrous throughout, 8-9 mm in diameter, lobes reflexed at anthesis, ovate, 3-4 mm long and 2-3 mm wide; corona fleshy, annular, broadly 5-lobed; gynostegium 1.5-2 mm high; stigma head brownish in color, pentagonal, slightly domed. Fruit not known.
Habit	vines
Note	The two collections cited below represent the most northward extension of a small species complex of 3-5 taxa which includes the type of the genus. All are small glabrous vines with small green flowers
Distribution	common in Northern Brazil, Amazonian Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Guianas.
Specimen	COLON: Santa Rita Ridge, Gentry & Dwyer 4814 (MO). PANAMA: La Eneida, ca. 16 km E of Cerro Azul (Goofy Lake), Dressler 4315 (MO).