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(Last Modified On 5/15/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/15/2013)
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Species
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Cestrum nocturnum L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. P1. 191. 1753.
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Note
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TYPE: Hort. Cliff. (BM, not seen).
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Description
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Shrub or tree to 5 m tall, sometimes scandent; twigs green, minutely puberulent, very leafy. Leaves to 11 cm long, ovate, sometimes broadly so, apically acute or acuminate, basally rounded or obtuse, fine puberulent when emerging, glabrous with maturity; petioles ca. 1 cm long; minor leaves mostly wanting. Inflorescences several, axillary or terminal, mostly many-flowered, con- gested, sparingly branched panicles; peduncle slender with scattered leafy bracts; pedicels short with linear-lanceolate bracteoles 2-3 mm long. Flowers strongly night-scented, calyx 2 mm long, campanulate, fine puberulent inside and out, the lobes acuminate, enlarging slightly and becoming costate and mucronulate in fruit; corolla greenish or yellowish white, drying yellowish, the tube slender, 14-17 mm long, glabrous outside, sometimes pilose inside at the point of filament insertion; stamens equal, the filaments ca. 3 mm free, distinctly dentate at or just below the point of insertion, mostly glabrous; stigma slightly exserted. Fruit a hard or juicy black berry, elliptical or slightly obovoid, to 10 mm long.
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Habit
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Shrub or tree
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Note
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The mostly glabrous corolla and prominent tooth-like appendages on the filaments are good features for recognition. Some Panamanian specimens have flowers much smaller than those found in other regions. Cestrum nocturnum is widely grown in tropical gardens for its nocturnal scent.
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Distribution
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The type locality is Jamaica, and the species is native to the Antilles and parts of Central America, including lowland Panama.
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Common
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Dama de noche
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Research Grounds, region of Almirante, Cooper 409 (F, US). Rio Teribe between Quebrada Huron and Quebrada Schlunjik, Kirkbride & Duke 478 (MO). Changuinola to 5 mi. S at junction of Rio Changuinola and Rio Teribe, 100-200 ft, edge of river and railway and adjacent rain forest, Lewis et al. 814 (GH, MO, PMA, US). Without locality, von Wedel 421 (GH, MO). CANAL ZONE: Drowned forest of upper Rio Pequeni between Salamanca Hydrographic Station and Rio Boqueron, 70 m, Allen 17277 (MO). Barro Colorado Island, Bangham 429 (F, US). Colon and Empire, Crawford 446 (NY). Fort Amador on causeway and islands, Tyson 2025 (FSU, MO). CHIRIQUI: Rio Macho de Monte, 1 mi. E of Cuesta de Piedra 2,800 ft, Tyson 895 (FSU). COLON: Portobelq, Holdridge 6399A (MO, PMA). PANAMA: Piria, Duke 1444 (OS).
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