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(Last Modified On 9/5/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/5/2013)
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Species
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Hoffmannia morii Dwyer
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Note
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TYPE: Panamai, Mori & Kallunki 5915 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Subshrubs to 1 m tall, the stem simple, obtusely angular, rimose, glabrous or glabrescent, covered with mosses, the nodes to 4 cm apart. Leaves widely oblong, 13-25 cm long, 7-12 cm wide, deltoid at the apex, obtuse or widely cuneate toward the base, the costa subplane above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins ca. 10, arcuate, not joining to form a conspicuous submarginal vein, thin coria- ceous when dry, slightly discolorous, glabrous above, puberulent beneath on the veins and costa, often moss covered; petioles to 3 cm long, to 1 mm wide, not vesciculiferous or with poorly developed vescicles. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, the flowers numerous in globose heads, 2 cm in diam. Flowers with pedicels ca. 2.5 cm long; hypanthium subrotund or turbinate, ca. 2 mm long, the hairs elongate, to 3 mm long, the calycine cup ca. 2 mm long, the lobes 4, narrowly oblong, ca. 4.5 mm long, thickly petaloid or subcoriaceous with purple hairs to 2 mm long outside; corolla tube narrowly cylindrical, glabrous, 5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, thickly petaloid, the lobes 4, oblong, triangular, ca. 3 mm long, cu- cullate; stamens 4, the anthers oblong ca. 3 mm long, the filaments ca. 1 mm
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Habit
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Subshrubs
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Description
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long, attached above the middle of the tube; style slender, ca. 6.5 mm long, slightly expanded toward the apex, the stigmas 2, ovate, ca. 2-8 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide, conspicuously thickened. Fruits not seen.
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Note
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It is named in honor of Dr. Scott Mori whose collections of Panamanian Rubiaceae have been of great as- sistance. The new species is closely related to H. vesciculifera Standley. The latter has conspicuous inflations or vescicles on the petioles which are not present or at least not well developed in the new species, although some smaller leaves of the new species have conspicuously dilated petioles. The leaf blades average 10 lat- eral veins while H. vesciculifera has 12-25 lateral veins. The hypanthium of the new species is hairy in contrast to H. vesciculifera and the calycine lobes are much shorter than in Standley's species. This species is known only from the type collection.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQuf: N of San Felix at Chiriqui-Bocas del Toro border, road to Cerro Colorado mine, 5000- 5500 ft, Mori & Kallunki 5915 (MO).
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