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(Last Modified On 11/29/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/29/2012)
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Species
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WEBEROCEREUS PANAMENSIS Britton & Rose
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PlaceOfPublication
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Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. No. 248. 2:215. 1920.
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Description
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Succulent epiphytic root-climbers, the young stem joints elongate, 4-7 mm. thick, rather indefinitely angled or winged and occasionally flat, the areoles marginal, inconspicuously indented, very inconspicuously puberulent to naked. Flowers mediocre, the perianth tube 2-3 cm. long, about 4 mm. in diameter at the base, immediately dilating to an obconic throat about 1 cm. in diameter at the orifice, bearing several fugacious deltoid bracts and areoles armed with slender subarachnoid bristles and hairs, the segments suberect or slightly spreading, pale yellowish orange tinged with pink, apparently occasionally white, oblong-elliptic, 1.5-3.0 cm. long; ovary oblong-turbinate, truncate, about 1 cm. long, bearing minute fugacious bracts and persistent subarachnoid-bristly areoles. Berry broadly obovoid-turbinate, 2-3 cm. long, very prominently tuberculate, bright red when ripe.
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Distribution
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Lowland streamside forests and thickets, Panama.
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Specimen
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COLON: near mouth of Rio Chagres, Allen 882; along Rio Fato, Pittier 3903. LO- CALITY UNKNOWN: Hunter I7040, 17041.
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Note
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The Hunter numbers, with only the comment "In long strands climbing over trees" have been determined previously as Selenicereus inermis (Otto) B. & R. They are quite sterile, however, consisting of older stems which are sharply 4-angled as a rule. Although we believe that they probably represent W. panamensis it is possible of course that such actually may not be the case. The flowering stem joints of W. panamensis which are before us are 2- to 3-angled.
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