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(Last Modified On 9/18/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/18/2013)
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Species
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Rudgea pittieri Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 22: 211. 1940.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Pittier 3855 (F, holotype, US).
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Description
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Shrubs 5-8 m tall, the branchlets 4-angled, ashen gray when dry, the nodes conspicuous, swollen, the internodes to 2 cm long. Leaves widely oblong or rotund, 13-22 cm long, 5.0-10.5 cm wide, deltoid or rotund toward the apex, the acumen absent or when present to 0.5 cm long, attenuate acute at the base, the costa prominulous above, prominent beneath, to 1.3 mm wide proximally, the lateral veins 10-12, arcuate, somewhat prominulous, the margin revolute, cori- aceous, concolorous, shiny, glabrous; petioles thick, 1.5-3.0 cm long, to 0.25 cm wide; stipules free, compressed rotund, to 1.5 cm long, thick, coriaceous, gla- brous, with an elevated rectangular portion extending beyond the body, rounded at the apex, and bearing 6-12 oblong glandular fimbriae to 2.5 mm long. Inflo- rescences terminal, solitary, the flowers congested into a rotund mass, to 3 cm in diam., sessile or the peduncle to 1.3 cm long, to 0.45 cm wide; external bracts ovate oblong, ca. 1.5 cm long, acute, glabrous, stiffly carnose, dark brown, the interior bracts similar but narrowly lanceolate. Flowers with the hypanthium short, the calycine cup short, the margin with 5 irregular, scariose, erose, trian- gular teeth, 0.5-2.5 mm long; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, ca. 1 cm long, thickly petaloid, glabrous outside, glabrous within except for the throat, the hairs dense, the lobes 5, narrowly oblong, ca. 8 mm long, acute or obtuse, cucullate; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, 1.8 mm long, the filaments short; style linear, 15 mm long, the stigmas 2, 1 mm long. Fruits sessile, oblong, to 1.5 cm long, sub- truncate or rotund, orange, black when dry, smooth, glabrous, often marcescent.
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Habit
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Shrubs
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Distribution
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known from Panama and Colombia (Choco).
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Note
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Standley's origi- nal description was based on poor material, although foliage and stipule characters are enough to suggest the genus Rudgea and are diagnostic at the species level. In some ways the plant resembles a Cephaelis but the character of its stipules pre- cludes that genus. The thick coriaceous leaves are unlike those of any Rudgea of Middle America.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Near Maru Towers NW part of Canal Zone, Johnston 1553 (MO). Santa Rita lumber road, 15 km E of Col6n, Dressier 3801 (MO). COLON: Tres Brazos sawmill, Icacal between Salud and Bocas de Rio Indio, Howsell 88 (MO). Santa Rita Ridge, ca. 10 mi from the Interamerican Highway, Porter et al. 4803 (MO). Achiote, Tvson et al. 4537 (MO); Tyson 4532 (MO). PANAMA: El Llano-Carti Road, 7-18 km from Interamerican Highway, Correa et al. 1857 (MO); Croat 25125 (MO); Folsom 2556 (MO). W of El Llano, 4.8 mi N of highway, Gentr' 5102 (MO). Cerro Jefe, 18.2 km E of Goofy Lake, 800-900 m, Gentry & Mori 13427 (MO). El Llano-Carti Road, 16-181/2 km N of Panamerican Highway, Nee & Tyson 11000, 10955 (both MO).
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