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(Last Modified On 5/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/17/2013)
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Species
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Witheringia stramonfifolia Kunth in H. & B.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Nov. Gen. 3: 1818.
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Note
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TYPE: Herb. Bonpland s.n. (P; MO, photo) .
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Synonym
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Brachistus stramoniifolius (Kunth) Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 2. 3: 263. 1849. (Type species of Brachistus Miers; of Witheringia sect, Brachistus (Miers) Hunz.). Capsicum stramoniifolium (Kunth) 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. P1. 2: 450. 1891. Capsicum malacophyllum Standl., Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. Ser. 4: 260. 1929. TYPE: Mexico, Mexia 1780 (MO). Bassovia stramoniifolia (Kunth) Standl., Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 23: 1303. 1924.
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Description
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Shrub or tree to 6 m tall; twigs puberulent with small, dense, mostly ap- pressed, simple or glandular hairs. Leaves broadly ovate, to 25 cm long, sinuately 1-4-dentate on each side of the margin, occasionally entire, the apex and lobes acuminate, the base mostly truncate, slightly dimidiate, the veins and lamina softly pubescent with fine erect hairs, more conspicuous beneath; the petiole to '/2 as long as the leaves, pubescent; minor leaves mostly present, less than '/2 as large as the major leaves. Inflorescences several-flowered, fascicled in the leaf axils, peduncles not apparent, the pedicels ca. 10 mm long, pubescent and de- flexed in flower, glabrescent, elongating and erect in fruit. Flowers with the calyx cyathiform, as broad as deep, ca. 4 mm long with five manifest acuminate lobes ca. 1 mm long, pubescent, drying with evident venation, accrescent and partly or entirely enclosing the fruit; corolla yellow, 7-9 mm long, the tube puberulent outside and in the upper portion, lobed 1/s way down or further, the lobes puberulent outside, obtuse; filaments puberulent on the ventral surface, inserted in the middle of the corolla tube or above, somewhat shorter than the
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Habit
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Shrub or tree
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Description
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anthers, the anthers oblongoid, mostly not apiculate, 2-3 mm long, exserted. Fruit compressed globose, loosely enveloped by the calyx, ca. 10 mm across.
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Note
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This species is readily distinguished from other Panamanian species by its dentate leaves and the accrescent, toothed calyx.
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Native
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Mexico
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Distribution
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Mexico El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Panama.
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Note
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There is only one known collection from Panama. Witheringia stramoniifolia is apparently a species of middle elevations. Examination of ma- terial from a wide geographic range suggests that several taxa may be confused under this one name.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Robalo Trail, N slopes of Cerro Horqueta, 600-7,000 ft, herb 8 ft, flowers greenish white, Allen 4955 (MO).
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