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(Last Modified On 9/16/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/16/2013)
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Species
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Psychotria mima Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 22: 204. 1940.
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Note
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TYPE: Brazil, L. B. Smith 1878 (F, holotype).
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Description
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Trees to 5 m tall, the branchlets slender, terete, glabrate to puberulent. Leaves oblong to ovate oblong, 6.0-19.5 cm long, 2.0-8.5 cm wide, deltoid to obtuse at the apex, acuminate, the acumen to 1.7 cm long, widely cuneate to subobtuse at the base, occasionally inequilateral, the costa immersed or somewhat prominu- lous above, prominulous beneath, smooth, the lateral veins ca. 10, the middle veins to 2 cm apart, arcuate ascending, often with parallel intermediate evanes- cent veins, thinly coriaceous, usually drying gray or tan gray, glabrate but often rufous puberulent on the costa or on the lateral veins; petioles to 2.5 cm long, to 0.18 cm wide; stipules briefly or almost completely connate, cylindrical, to 0.8 cm long, each part 2-lobed at the apex, the lobes obtuse, each shorter than the sheath, stiffly scarious, glabrous or glabrescent. Inflorescences terminal, pyram- idal paniculate, to 45 cm long, the peduncles absent or elongate, to 0.2 cm wide at the base, sinuous, glabrous, the branches opposite, spreading or reflexed, well spaced, the lowermost to 10.5 cm long, the secondary branches floriferous, paired, opposite, well spaced, at right angles to the secondary branches, the bracts subulate, to 0.5 cm long, reflexed, persistent, the cymules few flowered, spreading. Flowers with the hypanthium rotund, to 1.3 mm long, puberulent, the calycine cup ca. 0.3 mm long, glabrous and with minute appressed rotund glands within, the calycine teeth 5, subequal, deltoid, to 0.3 mm long, acute, puberulent marginally and without; corolla white or cream maroon, the tube linear cylindri- cal, to 12 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, glabrous outside and in except villosulose at the anther attachment position, the lobes 5, narrow oblong, cucullate, glabrous, petaloid; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, ca. 1.7 mm long, occasionally minutely apiculate, dorsifixed, the filaments short, attached near the base of the tube; stigmas 2, linear, to 2 mm long, the style compressed, 4-7 mm long. Fruits (fragmentary) subrotund, to 3 mm in diam., smooth, black, lightly ribbed.
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Habit
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Trees
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Distribution
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occurs in Panama, Colombia and Brazil.
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Note
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The inflorescence in the living plant is blue or purple. One Colombian collection (Forero 797 [MO]) has excellent fruits which are compressed rotund. The inflorescence is epedun- culate or one may consider the tip of the twiglet as bearing 3 discrete peduncles, the median to 12.5 cm long.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Between Buena Vista coffee finca and Cerro Pil6n cloud forest, Kirkbride & Duke 678 (MO). COL6N: Santa Rita Ridge, 19 km from paved highway, Dwyer 8574 (MO). DARIEN: Demartaganala, Camp Summit, Duke 15827 (MO). Camp Summit near Darien-San Blas border, Oliver et al. 3694 (COL, MO, UC). PANAMA: Cerro Jefe, Duke 9401 (MO); Dwyer & Gauger 7368 (MO); Dwyer & Gentry 9469 (MO). Gorgas Mem. Lab., 5-10 km NE of Altos de Pacora, Mori & Kallunki 3423 (MO). Cerro Jefe, Tyson et al. 3246 (MO). VERAGUAS: 5 mi W of Santa Fe, Escuela Agricola Alto Piedra, 800-1200 m, Croat 23077 (MO). 5 mi NW of Santa Fe, 700-1200 m, Croat 23156 (MO). Valley of Rio Dos Bocas, 15.6 km NW of Santa Fe, Croat 27787 (MO). NW of Santa Fe, 1.5 km from Escuela Agricola Alto de Piedra, Mori & Kallunki 5309 (MO). COLOMBIA: CHOCO: Region of Rio Pichma, Waunana, 100 m, Forero 797 (MO).
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