Taxon Details: Cavendishia copeensis Luteyn
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Family:
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Cavendishia copeensis Luteyn
Cavendishia copeensis Luteyn
Primary Citation:
Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35(1): 182. 1982
Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35(1): 182. 1982
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Description: Hemiepiphytic shrub with stems to 1.5 m long, glabrous throughout (except filaments); mature branches terete, striate, somewhat nitid, dark reddish-brown to blackish; twigs bluntly angled, striate, reddish-brown; vegetative bracts persistent at bases of current season's growth. Leaves thick coriaceous, lance-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, (10.5-)16-21 x (4-)5-8 cm, basally rounded or broadly obtuse, apically acuminate; 5(-7)-plinerved, midrib very thick and conspicuously raised through proximal 2.5-4 cm otherwise impressed above, inner pair of lateral nerves arising 2.5-4 cm above base, all lateral nerves impressed above and with midrib conspicuously raised and prominent beneath, veinlets obscure but slightly raised on both surfaces; petioles terete, rugose, 12-24 mm long and 3-4 mm diam. Inflorescence (8-)12-20-flowered; rachis subterete, bluntly angled, conspicuously striate, nodes swollen and conspicuous, (2.5-)5-9 cm long and 2-4 mm diam.; floral bracts oblong, apically rounded, ca. 30 x 15 mm, pink to pale red when fresh; pedicels cylindric, striate, 14-15 mm long and ca. 2 mm diam. at anthesis; bracteoles basal, oblong, 3-4 x 1-1.5 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate. Flowers: calyx 9-10.5 mm long; hypanthium subcylindric to campanulate, pentagonal, 3-4 mm long, basally truncate and nonapophysate but slightly extended; limb erect, slightly fimbriate, 6-7 mm long; lobes triangular, 2.5-4 x 2.5-3 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate, semierect but curling around base of style after antheseis; sinuses broadly obtuse; corolla cylindric, 26-27 mm long, white or pink to red then tipped with white, lobes deltoid, ca. 1 mm long; stamens ca. 25 mm long; filaments pilose ventrally, the long ones in the distal 1/2, the short ones in the distal 1/4, alternately ca. 6 mm and 10.5 mm long; anthers alternately ca. 21 mm and 16.5 mm long; thecae ca. 8 mm long. Mature berry not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to Panama, and known only from the type locality, in cloud forest along the continental divide, at elevations of 750-1300 m.
Conservation Status: Rare and endangered.
Type: Panama. Coclé: Along lumbering road above El Copé, 2.2 km beyond sawmill near continental divide, 900 m, 20 Jan 1978 (fl), Hammel 1017 (holotype, MO, photo NY neg. 10864; isotypes, DUKE, NY).
Description: Hemiepiphytic shrub with stems to 1.5 m long, glabrous throughout (except filaments); mature branches terete, striate, somewhat nitid, dark reddish-brown to blackish; twigs bluntly angled, striate, reddish-brown; vegetative bracts persistent at bases of current season's growth. Leaves thick coriaceous, lance-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, (10.5-)16-21 x (4-)5-8 cm, basally rounded or broadly obtuse, apically acuminate; 5(-7)-plinerved, midrib very thick and conspicuously raised through proximal 2.5-4 cm otherwise impressed above, inner pair of lateral nerves arising 2.5-4 cm above base, all lateral nerves impressed above and with midrib conspicuously raised and prominent beneath, veinlets obscure but slightly raised on both surfaces; petioles terete, rugose, 12-24 mm long and 3-4 mm diam. Inflorescence (8-)12-20-flowered; rachis subterete, bluntly angled, conspicuously striate, nodes swollen and conspicuous, (2.5-)5-9 cm long and 2-4 mm diam.; floral bracts oblong, apically rounded, ca. 30 x 15 mm, pink to pale red when fresh; pedicels cylindric, striate, 14-15 mm long and ca. 2 mm diam. at anthesis; bracteoles basal, oblong, 3-4 x 1-1.5 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate. Flowers: calyx 9-10.5 mm long; hypanthium subcylindric to campanulate, pentagonal, 3-4 mm long, basally truncate and nonapophysate but slightly extended; limb erect, slightly fimbriate, 6-7 mm long; lobes triangular, 2.5-4 x 2.5-3 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate, semierect but curling around base of style after antheseis; sinuses broadly obtuse; corolla cylindric, 26-27 mm long, white or pink to red then tipped with white, lobes deltoid, ca. 1 mm long; stamens ca. 25 mm long; filaments pilose ventrally, the long ones in the distal 1/2, the short ones in the distal 1/4, alternately ca. 6 mm and 10.5 mm long; anthers alternately ca. 21 mm and 16.5 mm long; thecae ca. 8 mm long. Mature berry not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to Panama, and known only from the type locality, in cloud forest along the continental divide, at elevations of 750-1300 m.
Conservation Status: Rare and endangered.
Type: Panama. Coclé: Along lumbering road above El Copé, 2.2 km beyond sawmill near continental divide, 900 m, 20 Jan 1978 (fl), Hammel 1017 (holotype, MO, photo NY neg. 10864; isotypes, DUKE, NY).
Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):
Cavendishia copeensis Luteyn: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.
Cavendishia copeensis Luteyn: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.