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(Last Modified On 8/21/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/21/2013)
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Species
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Chomelia atlantica Dwyer
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Kennedy & Gra 2242 (MO, ho- lotype).
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Description
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Trees or shrubs to 6 m tall, the branchlets short or long, to 13 cm long, the bark gray, densely appressed pubescent or glabrescent, the nodes well spaced, at times armed, the spines solitary, to 0.4 cm long, rigid. Leaves oblong, 3-14 cm long, 1.5-7.5 cm wide, deltoid toward the apex, acute, basally attenuate acute, rarely subcordate, sometimes inequilateral, the lateral veins 8-10, strongly ar- cuate, the intervenal areas conspicuously lineolate, chartaceous, discolorous, pubescent above on the costa and veins, with elongate appressed hairs on the costa and the veins beneath, the hairs of the intervenal areas small, strigose; petioles slender, to 2.-2 cm long; stipules free, often deciduous, narrowly trian- gular, to 10 mm long, acute with a median keel, densely pubescent especially toward the base. Inflorescences axillary, perhaps pedunculate; flowers ca. 3; bracteoles connate at the base of the hypanthium, each part provided with a conspicuous bristle to 2.5 mm long. Flowers green or cream colored, the hypan- thium oblong rotund, ca. 2 mm long, the hairs long, appressed, white, the calycine cup to 1.5 mm long, eglandular within, truncate, the lobes 4-5, subulate, to 6 mm long or longer, often curled; corolla with the tube 1.7-2.0 cm long, ca. 0.1 cm wide in the middle, with appressed, white and dense hairs outside, glabrous within, the lobes 4, narrowly ovate oblong, ca. 8 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide at the base, with a median keel, the latter with elongate, appressed hairs; stamens 4, somewhat included, the anthers narrowly oblong, 3.3 mm long, obtuse, the fila- ments ca. 0.5 mm long, attached near the mouth, the style linear, 4-11 mm long, the stigmas 2, ca. 1 mm long. Fruits not seen.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Note
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It is immediately distin- guished by the intervenal areas of the leaves being lineolate and the inflorescence being epedunculate. It is probably related to C. tenuiflora Bentham from Surinam, British Guiana, and Venezuela, which also has the bracteoles united below the hypanthium and a suppressed peduncle.
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Specimen
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COLON: Swamp forest and bordering tierra firma, ca. 0.5 km from Rio Buena-Ventura, near Portobelo, Kennedy & Gra 2242 (MO). DARIEN: Cerro Pirre, Bristan 567 (MO). Cand-Cuasf trail (Camp 2), Chepigana, Terry & Terry 1448 (F, MO).
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