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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 5/15/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 5/15/2013)
Species Markea neurantha Hemsl.
PlaceOfPublication Biol. Centr. Amer., Bot. 2: 429. 1882.
Note TYPE: Costa Rica, Endres 534 (K).
Synonym Merinthopodium neuranthum (Hemsl.) Donn. Sm., Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville) 23: 12, tab. 1. 1897.
Description Shrub, terrestrial or hemi-epiphytic, often high in the trees; twigs (dry) with longitudinally scaling bark and furrows. Leaves membranaceous, elliptic, the apex acuminate forming a "drip tip," the base obtuse, acute or acuminate, glabrous except for a few small simple hairs on the midvein beneath, mostly 8-12 cm long and 3-5 cm broad but occasionally much larger, ca. 5 major veins ascending at ca. 450 on each side of the midrib; petioles 1.5-4 cm long, slender, channelled above, ribbed beneath when dry. Inflorescence pendant, few- or many-flowered clusters at the end of a long, to 70 cm, slender peduncle which is rough textured with fine simple hairs and fine tuberculae, terminally thickened and stoutish; pedicels 3-10 cm long. Flowers with the calyx 2 cm long, lobed almost to the base at anthesis, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, campanulate, glabrous (Panama) or puberulent; corolla campanulate, 3-4 cm long and 2-3 cm across at the mouth, finely puberulent outside, glabrous within, strongly ribbed, the lobes ovate- orbicular; filaments filiform, inserted ca. 5 mm above base of corolla tube, anthers
Habit Shrub
Description elongate, 10-13 mm long and 1-3 mm wide, apiculate, the connective dorsally marked when dry, thecae opening fully, exserted; ovary conical, ca. 5 mm tall, immersed in a ring of nectary(?) ca. 1.5 mm tall, stylar base slightly enlarged, style slender, stigma large, exserted. Berry ovoid-conical, about as long as the calyx with a conspicuous stylar scar.
Distribution ranges from Chiriqui through Costa Rica.
Note It is similar to M. dressleri, but the flowers are smaller. In Costa Rica there are plants of this or perhaps of a closely related species with tomentose calyces. Flowers are re- ported as green tinged with purple at the base. Flowers of M. dressleri are all green outside but purple inside. Fruiting pedicels of Kirkbride & Duke 887 are elongate, 4.5 and 7 cm long.
Specimen BOCAS DEL TORO: Without locality von Wedel 212 (GH, MO). Water Valley, von Wedel 802 (GGH, MO). CHIRIQUI: Rain forest, Bajo Chorro, Boquete District, 6,000 ft. Davidson 184 (A, F, MO). Between Pinola and Quebrada Hondo toward summit on Chiriqui Trail, premontane rain forest (oak), Kirkbride & Duke 887 (MO). Cerro Horqueta cloud forest, 6,500 ft, von Hagen & von Hagen 2075 (MO).
 
 
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