Monographs Details:
Authority:
Smith, Albert C. 1952. Plants collected in Ecuador by W. H. camp. Vaceiniaceae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8 (1): 41-85.
Smith, Albert C. 1952. Plants collected in Ecuador by W. H. camp. Vaceiniaceae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8 (1): 41-85.
Family:
Ericaceae
Ericaceae
Description:
Species Description - (spreading shrub, terrestrial, up to 1 m. high; leaves pale green; bracts pinkish; flower-buds white). (short-branched epiphyte; bracts flushed with pink; hypanthium greenish, the calyx-lobes white; corolla deep purple toward base, white above).
Species Description - (spreading shrub, terrestrial, up to 1 m. high; leaves pale green; bracts pinkish; flower-buds white). (short-branched epiphyte; bracts flushed with pink; hypanthium greenish, the calyx-lobes white; corolla deep purple toward base, white above).
Discussion:
This recently described species, occurring, like many others of the family, over a wide altitudinal belt in Pacific Colombia, has already been recorded from the Province of Pichincha but not elsewhere in Ecuador. In Colombia it occurs from near sea-level up to 2,000 m. The cited specimens both have very young inflorescences but present no important points of difference from Colombian material; under very high magnification the young bracteoles, calyces, and corollas are seen to be copiously glandular with minute spherical sessile glands.
This recently described species, occurring, like many others of the family, over a wide altitudinal belt in Pacific Colombia, has already been recorded from the Province of Pichincha but not elsewhere in Ecuador. In Colombia it occurs from near sea-level up to 2,000 m. The cited specimens both have very young inflorescences but present no important points of difference from Colombian material; under very high magnification the young bracteoles, calyces, and corollas are seen to be copiously glandular with minute spherical sessile glands.
Distribution:
Ecuador South America|
Ecuador South America|