Monographs Details:
Authority:
1909. Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville). 47: 256.
1909. Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville). 47: 256.
Family:
Ericaceae
Ericaceae
Description:
Species Description - Usually epiphytic shrubs. Leaves elliptic, lance-ovate, oblong or ovate-oblong, (8-)12-18(-25) x 4-9(-11) cm, basally cuneate to rounded, apically acuminate to acute, glabrous; 3(-5)-plinerved. Inflorescences axillary but frequently on leafless portions of the branches; rachis 5-10 mm long with 6-12 flowers; pedicels 6-10 mm long. Flowers with calyx hypanthium campanulate, ca. 2 mm in diam. at anthesis, glabrous or minutely puberulous becoming glabrate, and either with or without appressed, minute glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; lobes 5, triangular, apiculate, ca. 0.2-0.3 mm long; sinuses flat to slightly rounded; corolla contracted distally, 10-12(-15) mm long and ca. 2-2.5 mm in diam., glabrous or more typically inconspicuously and sparingly appressed, reddish, glandular strigillose with trichomes 0.1 mm long, the lobes acute, ca. 1 mm long. Fruit an hemispheric to ± globose berry.
Distribution and Ecology - Guatemala to Costa Rica. Montane forest.
Species Description - Usually epiphytic shrubs. Leaves elliptic, lance-ovate, oblong or ovate-oblong, (8-)12-18(-25) x 4-9(-11) cm, basally cuneate to rounded, apically acuminate to acute, glabrous; 3(-5)-plinerved. Inflorescences axillary but frequently on leafless portions of the branches; rachis 5-10 mm long with 6-12 flowers; pedicels 6-10 mm long. Flowers with calyx hypanthium campanulate, ca. 2 mm in diam. at anthesis, glabrous or minutely puberulous becoming glabrate, and either with or without appressed, minute glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; lobes 5, triangular, apiculate, ca. 0.2-0.3 mm long; sinuses flat to slightly rounded; corolla contracted distally, 10-12(-15) mm long and ca. 2-2.5 mm in diam., glabrous or more typically inconspicuously and sparingly appressed, reddish, glandular strigillose with trichomes 0.1 mm long, the lobes acute, ca. 1 mm long. Fruit an hemispheric to ± globose berry.
Distribution and Ecology - Guatemala to Costa Rica. Montane forest.
Discussion:
NY 10432 annotated as Type Coll. by A. C. Smith, 1930; and as Holotype by E. A. Powell, 2005.
NY 10432 annotated as Type Coll. by A. C. Smith, 1930; and as Holotype by E. A. Powell, 2005.