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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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Solanum rovirosanum Donn. Sm.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville) 48: 297. 1909.
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Note
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TYPE: Guatemala, Tfirckheim 11021 (= Donn. Sm., Nl. Guat. 8716) (US).
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Synonym
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Solanum confertiseriatum Bitt., Fedde Repert. 11: 490. 1912. SYNTYPE: Ecuador, Eggers 14219 (MO). Cyphomandra homalophylla Standl., Trop. Woods 10: 50-51. 1927. TYPE: Panama, Cooper &Slater39 (F,US). Solanum grandifolium Mort., Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 29: 51-52. 1944. HOLOTYPE: Colombia, Cuatrecasas 7394 (US).
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Description
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Shrub or small tree to 7 m tall; twigs stout, glabrous or minutely puberulent. Leaves large, ovate or elliptic, to 30 cm long, narrowed at each end, glabrous above, beneath glabrous or minutely puberulent, the midvein prominent; petiole stout, 1-5 cm long; minor leaves not evident. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, a once or twice branched cyme of secund, elongating, flexuous racemes which bear conspicuous pedicel scars, the pedicels filiform, 6-9 mm long, becoming thicker and slightly longer in fruit. Flowers small, the calyx 1-2 mm long, campanulate, splitting about halfway down into mucronulate lobes, glabrous and mostly drying russet; corolla white, drying orange-brown, ca. 6 mm long, deeply lobed, the lobes lanceolate; filaments united into a tube ca. 1 mm long, glabrous, each filament flattened but not narrowed apically, adnate to the full breadth of the anther base, but not extended over the dorsal surface of the anther, the anthers stout, dorsally flattened, 3-4 mm long, opening by large terminal pores which are tardily confluent with longitudinal slits; ovary elliptical with a few small hairs on top, the style pubescent, the stigma placed 1.5 mm beyond the anther tips. Fruit globose, to 10 mm across (immature), flattening in the press.
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Habit
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Shrub or small tree
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Note
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This species is similar to some species of Cyphomandra in its long peduncles. It is distinguished by its large leaves, pubescence not usually visible to the naked eye and its elongate, branched inflorescences.
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Distribution
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In Panama, Solanum rovirosanum has been collected only in the lowlands of Bocas del Toro, although it ranges widely from Guatemala to Colombia and Ecuador.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Cooper & Slater 39, 118 (F). Rio Teribe just below Puerto Palenque, 250 ft, Kirkbride & Duke 555 (C, MO, SCZ). Down Changuinola River from town of Changuinola, 1/2 mi. from point of entry into the sea in a vast bare flood- plain, Lazor et al. 2639 (FSU, SCZ). Along Changuinola River 1/2 mi. from point of entry into the sea, Lazor et al. 2657 (FSU, SCZ). 4 mi. N of Almirante, lower montane rain-forest, McDaniel 5097 (MO). Water Valley, von Wedel 731 (MO, US). Vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 1085 (GH, MO, US).
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