Tropicos | Name - Escallonia poasana Donn. Sm.

Escallonia poasana Donn. Sm.

Flora Data (Last Modified On 11/13/2012)

Species	ESCALLONIA POASANA Donn. Sm.
PlaceOfPublication	Bot. Gaz. 23:243-244. 1897.
Description	Small tree up to 25 feet tall, irregular in shape; branchlets short, closely leafy, somewhat resinous and glandular; leaves 10-20 mm. long, 6-9 mm. wide, obovate, rounded at apex, cuneate at base and narrowed to a short petiole 2-3 mm. long, margins finely denticulate, at least in upper half, somewhat resinous, subcoriaceous, lower surface whitened and reticulate, upper surface green; flowers white, borne singly, apically or laterally, on the short branchlets, peduncles 5-15 mm. long; hypanthium united to ovary in lower half, 7 mm. long, diameter at upper margin 6 mm., calyx-lobes 2 mm. long, deltoid, acuminate toward apex, margins fimbriate; petals 10 mm. long, blade 3 mm. long, scarcely broader than claw, rounded at apex with a short mucro at tip, margins fimbriate; stamens 7.5 mm. long, filaments 5
Habit	tree
Description	mm. long, anthers oblong; style entire, 5 mm. long, stigma depressed-globose, crenate on margin; capsule 7-8 mm. long, at upper margin 7 mm. in diameter, bilocular, dehiscent at base.
Distribution	Costa Rica and Panama.
Specimen	CHIRIQUI: Boquete Distr., Volcain de Chiriqui, 10,400 ft., Davidson I054, I306; Chiriqui Volcano, 2800-3000 m., Pittier 3079; Rio Chiriqui Viejo, White 6.