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Ferdinandusa loretensis Standl.

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Notes:

This species is characterized by its stiff-textured, elliptic-oblong, frequently quite robust leaves, pedicellate 4-merous flowers, white corollas with the tube 26-43 mm long, and stoutly cylindrical, woody, rather large capsules. Anunciação (2004) characterized this species in part by its leaves that are puberulous abaxially, but a number of specimens of this species are glabrous on the lower leaf surface.

Ferdinandusa loretensis is similar to Ferdinandusa elliptica, and the report of Ferdinandusa elliptica in Ecuador by Andersson & Taylor (1994) has not been reconfirmed and could be a misidentification of Ferdinandusa loretensis. The documentation of this species in Ecuador is confused by the illustration of this species in that treatment of a Braziilan plant, which is correctly identified as Ferdinandusa elliptica.

Distribution: Wet forest at 100--1000 m in the northern and western Amazon basin, in southern Colonmbia (Caquetá), southern Venezuela (Amazonas), southern French Guiana, eastern Ecuador (Morona-Santiago, Sucumbíos, Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (Amazonas, Loreto, Pasco, Puno, San Martín), and Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Roraima, Rondônia).