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(Last Modified On 10/29/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/29/2012)
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Species
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MYROSMA PANAMENSIS Standl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 15:4. 1925.
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Description
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Plants fairly stout, caulescent, 3-6 dm. tall; leaves obovate-elliptic, obtuse to broadly acute, base obtusely cuneate, 15-40 cm. long, 7-16 cm. broad, incon- spicuously puberulent toward the base above, otherwise glabrous; petioles 0.3-1.0 cm. long, wholly callous, minutely puberulent; sheath 10-15 cm. long, glabrous; flowering stem 15-30 cm. long, bearing 2-3 somewhat reduced leaves; spikes solitary or in clusters of 2-3 at the tip of the stem, 7-12 cm. long, shortly pedunculate; bracts rather distantly 2-ranked, 14-20, foliaceous, conduplicate, obovate-oblong, 2.0-2.5 cm. long, about 1 cm. broad, broadly obtuse, nearly horizontal; flowers distinctly (about 0.3 cm.) pedicellate, exserted from the bracts, 2.0-2.5 cm. long, creamy white.
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Distribution
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Panama, in moist lowland forest.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Madden Dam, Dodge, Steyermarz & Allen 16502. PANAMA: Rio Maestra, Allen 4; Rio Tecumen, Standley 26738.
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Note
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I have not been able to examine specimens of M. Hoffmannii K. Sch., of Costa Rica, to which this species must be very closely related.
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