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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 goldmanii Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 18: 130. 1916.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Goldman 1883 (US, holotype).
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees, the branchlets slender, glabrate, drying red, the nodes subturgid. Leaves elliptic to elliptic oblong, 3.5-8.5 cm long, 0.8-1.7 cm wide, abruptly long acuminate or caudate acuminate at the apex, the acumen to 1.8 cm long, attenuate acute or cuneate at the base, the costa plane or immersed above, prominulous beneath, the lateral veins 12-14, widely arcuate, evanescent above, stiffly chartaceous, conspicuously discolorous, dark red above, silvery beneath, glabrous, glandular shiny; petioles slender but stiff, flexuous, to 2.5 cm long; stipules presumably connate, the sheath oblong rotund, ca. 1 mm long, each part bilobate, the lobes short, 0.1-1.0 mm long, acute to obtuse. Inflorescences terminal, equal to or exceeding the uppermost leaves, to 8 cm long, corymbose paniculate, the peduncles 2-3 cm long, slender, the branches opposite, spreading, to 1.5 cm long; bracts linear to lanceolate, 2-4 mm long; bracteoles deltoid ovate to oblong, to 0.3 -mm long, obtuse or acute, glabrous. Flowers with the hypan- thium ca. 0.5 mm long, the calyx cup ca. 0.5 mm long, glabrous, with several glands at the base within, the teeth scarcely developed or to 1 mm long, usually rounded and irregular marginate; corolla greenish white or white, the tube cylin- drical, ca. 5 mm long, often dilated above, glabrous outside, villose within, the lobes 1-2 mm long, to 1 mm wide, obtuse; stamens 5, the anthers partially exsert- ed, oblong, ca. 1.2 mm long, the filaments ca. 1.5 mm long, attached about 1 mm below the orifice; ovarian disc hemispherical, prominent, bilabiate at summit; style ca. 3 mm long; stigmas slender, villosulose. Fruits oblong rotund, ca. 4 mm in diameter, costate, blue, drying black, glabrous, the calycine cup persistent.
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Habit
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Shrubs or small trees
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Distribution
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known only from Panama and Costa Rica.
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Note
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One fruiting collection, Standley & Valerio 44048 (F) from Costa Rica has much wider leaf blades and is grey green beneath. The awns of the stipules exceed the body in length. The fruit is described as blue.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Above San Felix, 18-27 mi off Panamerican Highway, above Chame or turnoff to Escopeta, 1200-1500 m, Croat 33119 (MO). Vicinity of Cerro Colorado Copper Mine, 28 mi above San Felix, 1200-1500 m, Croat 33201 (MO). Cerro Colorado Road between San Felix and Cerro Colorado, 30 km above bridge of Rio San Felix, 1610-1690 m, Croat 37129, 37143 (both MO). Cerro Colorado, Folsom 1742, 1777 (both MO). Cerro Horqueta, ca. 2200 m, Hagen & Hagen 2037 (F). N of San Felix at Chiriqui-Bocas del Toro border on Cerro Colorado Copper Mine Road, ca. 1800 m, Mori & Kallunki 5893 (MO). Cerro Colorado, 35.6 km from Rio San Felix Bridge, 1390 m, Sullivan 383 (MO). DARIEN: Summit Pico Tacarcuna, highest point of Serrania del Darien, 1850 m, Gentry et al. 16909 (MO). PANAMA: Mount Pirre, headwaters of Rio Limon, Goldman 1883 (F, US).
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