Taxon Details: Psammisia columbiensis Hoerold
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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:

Psammisia columbiensis Hoerold
Primary Citation:

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 303. 1909
Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.
Common Names:

chacilulu
Description:

Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub 1-2 m tall, often becoming lianoid with branches scrambling to 7 m long; stem and twigs terete or subterete, smooth or striate, nitid, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong, elliptic, or lance-elliptic, 9-14 x 2-4.5 cm, base cuneate and decurrent on the petiole, apex long- acuminate, margin entire, glabrous or rarely nerves puberulent beneath; 3-5-plinerved, midrib and lateral nerves slightly impressed or raised above, conspicuously raised beneath, reticulate veinlets impressed or more frequently raised above, raised and usually conspicuous beneath; petiole terete to subterete, somewhat flattened above, rugose, 4-6 mm long, glabrous or puberulent. Inflorescence racemose, 8-20-flowered; rachis subterete or bluntly angled, 2-10 cm long, glabrous or rarely puberulent; floral bract ovate, acute to acuminate, 2-3(-6) x 1-1.5 mm, glabrous, marginally scarious; pedicel cylindric, 10-29 mm long and 1-1.5 mm diam., lengthening to 40 mm after anthesis, glabrous or rarely puberulent, red to crimson; bracteoles similar to the floral bracts, but 2-3(-5) mm long. Flowers with the calyx ca. 4-5 mm long, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent to short-pilose; hypanthium campanulate, slightly rugose, 2-3 mm long, dull crimson; limb campanulate-spreading, 2-4 mm long, sometimes irregularly cleft; lobes ovate or oblong-ovate, apiculate, 1-3 mm long, the margin thin and appearing torn, crimson tipped with yellow; sinuses acute; corolla cylindric, doubly constricted, narrowed at the throat, 22-33 mm long and 5-7 mm diam., glabrous or rarely puberulent, crimson to second constriction, the apex and lobes white, the lobes spreading, oblong-triangular, acute or obtuse, ca. 2-3 mm long; stamen 8-14 mm long; filaments connate (rarely loosely united) into a tube 3-5 mm long, distally ciliate, the connective weakly spurred to all spurred but alternately more conspicuous; anthers 5.5-11 mm long; thecae slightly granular, ca. 3-6.5 mm long; tubules connate below, 2.5-4.5 mm long, dehiscing by clefts 1.5-2 mm long; style exserted, 22-29 mm long. Immature berry spherical, ca. 10 mm diam.

Distribution: Colombia and Ecuador; lower montane wet forest to montane cloud forest, at 1100-2880 m altitude.

Type: Colombia. Cauca: Cordillera Central, 2500-2800 m, Mar-Apr (fl), Lehmann 4452 (holotype, B?, photos F neg. 4686 and ACS neg. 142; lectotype, designated by Luteyn (1996), NY fragment ex B; isolectotype, K).

Illustration: Luteyn (1996), plate 1.

Local name: Ecuador: chacilulu.

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Psammisia columbiensis Hoerold: [Article] Smith, Albert C. 1952. Plants collected in Ecuador by W. H. camp. Vaceiniaceae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8 (1): 41-85.
Psammisia columbiensis Hoerold: [Article] 1909. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 303.
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J. L. Luteyn 14761, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 14776, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 15349, Ecuador
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J. L. Luteyn 6720, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 6720, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 5742, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 5624, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 15043, Ecuador
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J. L. Luteyn 14685, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 14685, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 15005, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 14698, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 14793, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 8438, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 11016, Ecuador
L. K. Albert de Escobar 2886, Colombia
L. K. Albert de Escobar 7616, Colombia
J. L. Jaramillo 13644, Ecuador
L. J. Dorr 6139, Ecuador
T. B. Croat 90481, Ecuador
B. Øllgaard 35912, Ecuador
B. Øllgaard 9370, Ecuador
L. B. Holm-Nielsen 16222, Ecuador
V. Zak 2292, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 15365, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 15383, Ecuador
J. L. Luteyn 5787, Ecuador
T. B. Croat 89241, Ecuador
N. R. Salinas 712, Ecuador
L. J. Dorr 5909, Ecuador
H. H. van der Werff 18913, Ecuador
W. H. Hodge 6651, Colombia
P. Pedraza-Peñalosa 1162, Colombia
G. Davidse 5784, Colombia
M. Tirado 1237, Ecuador
W. A. Palacios 6395, Ecuador
H. Vargas 1680, Ecuador
J. E. Ramos Pérez 7166, Ecuador
J. E. Ramos Pérez 6820, Ecuador
J. E. Ramos Pérez 6958, Ecuador
X. Aguirre 305, Ecuador
B. Sparre 18745, Ecuador