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(Last Modified On 11/13/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/13/2012)
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Species
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PHILADELPHUS MYRTOIDES Bertol.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fl. Guat. 21, tab. 7 (in Nov. Comm. Acad. Sci. Inst. Bonon. 4:421, pI. 43). 1840.
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Synonym
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Philadelhbus trichopetalus Koern. in Regel's Gartenfl. 16:73. 1867.
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Description
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Shrub with arching, strigose and often scandent stems; leaves 3-9 cm. long, ovate, acuminate at apex, rounded at base, remotely denticulate, 3- to 5-nerved at base, pale and hirsute-strigose beneath, green with few pili above, short-petiolate; flowers pedicellate, 1-3, on short branchlets; hypanthium and calyx grayish- strigose, calyx-lobes 5-10 mm. long, deltoid-acuminate; petals 15-20 mm. long, broadly obovate or suborbicular, glabrous or finely villous on both surfaces; stamens and style about one-half as long as petals; capsule 10 mm. long.
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Distribution
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Guatemala, also in Costa Rica and Panama, but perhaps indigenous only in Guatemala. Close to Philadeiphus mexicanus Schlecht. of southern Mexico.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Bajo Mona and Quebrada Chiquero, 1500 m., Woodson d Scbery 588- "Side of a footpath, possibly an escape."
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