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(Last Modified On 9/13/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/13/2013)
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Species
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Psychotria granadensis Benth.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Oerst., Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk Naturhist. Foren. Kj0benhavn 1852: 34. 1853.
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Note
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TYPE: Nicaragua, ?Oersted, not seen.
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Description
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Subshrubs to 11/2 m tall, the branchlets terete, ultimately angular, smooth, glabrous, the nodes well spaced. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, to 20 cm long, to 6.3 cm wide, tapering obtusely or acutely toward the apex, the apex often con- tracted into an acumen to 0.8 cm long, attenuate acute at the base, the costa grooved or plane above, usually drying gray white (as also the lateral veins), prominulous beneath, often delicately alate laterally, the lateral veins 15-18, widely arcuate, occasionally with domatia in the axils, chartaceous, drying deep green or gray green above, glabrate; petioles to 5 cm long, wiry, glabrous; stipules free, presumably ovate rotund, to 0.8 cm long, ca. 0.5 cm wide at the base, apically with 2 oblong lobes as long as or shorter than the body, stiffly scarious, rubescent, glabrate. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, cymose paniculate, often hemispherical, to 4 cm long, to 6.5 cm wide, the peduncle to 0.5 cm long or suppressed, the branches several, flabellate, and with 1-2 paired or 3-ternate branches, the cymules compressed, dense. Flowers sessile or subsessile, ca. 3 mm long, the hypanthium oblong, the calycine tube short, 0.3 mm deep, with a few glands within, glabrous inside, puberulent within, the teeth 5, triangular, 0.5 mm long; corolla tube compressed cylindrical, 1.5 mm long, densely villose near the mouth, the lobes 5, oblong, 1.3 mm long, subcarnose, cucullate; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, 0.75 mm long, the filaments short, attached at the apex of the tube; style short or long, 0.4-1.7 mm long, dilated apically; stigmas subulate, 0.3 mm long, the ovarian disc compressed rotund, 0.35 mm in diam. Fruits aggregate, rotund, red, drying red, glabrous, the 2 pyrenes costate, the 4 grooves conspic- uous, the calycine cup often persistent, less than 1 mm long.
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Habit
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Subshrubs
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Distribution
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extends from Guatemala to Panama.
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Note
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It seems closely related to P. nervosa Sw. and P. tenuifolia Sw.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Miraflores Lake, White 123 (MO). BARRO COLORADO ISLAND: Croat 7316, 14997, 16202, 17049 (all MO); Standley 41105 (US). VERAGUAS: Alto Piedra Santa F6, Lao 519 (MO).
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