Taxon Details: Psammisia lehmannii Hoerold
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Family:
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Psammisia lehmannii Hoerold
Psammisia lehmannii Hoerold
Primary Citation:
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 270, 305. 1909
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 270, 305. 1909
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Description: Shrub; stems terete, striate, glabrous, brownish. Leaves thick-coriaceous, lanceolate, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 9-18 x 2-4 cm, basally cuneate-attenuate, apically acute, entire and strongly revolute at margins, glabrous; pinnately veined, midrib and lateral nerves (3-5 per side) impressed above and prominent beneath, reticulate veinlets nearly plane on both surfaces; petiole rugose, 6-10 mm long, glabrous, narrowly winged. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, 10-20-flowered, glabrous in all parts; rachis subterete, 2-8 cm long; pedicels rugose, 18-40 mm long; floral bract oblong, ca. 3 mm long; bracteoles located below the middle, acute. Flowers with calyx 6-9 mm long; hypanthium strongly rugose, short-cylindric, 3-4 mm long and ca. 5 mm diam.; limb spreading, 3-5 mm long; lobes ovate-apiculate, 1-1.5 mm long; corolla coriaceous-carnose, broadly conical, ventricose below, 8-12 mm long and ca. 7 mm in diam., the lobes erect, thick-carnose, 1.5-2 mm long; stamens 10, 6.5-8.5 mm long; filaments connate at base, glabrous to slightly puberulous dorsally near apex, ca. 2.5 mm long; connectives 2-spurred, the spurs rounded and alternately larger; thecae stout, 3.5-5 mm long; tubules narowly cylindric, 2.5-3 mm long, dehiscing by clefts nearly their entire length; style stout, nearly as long as corolla; stigma truncate. Berry subspherical, to 12 mm diam.
Distribution: Endemic to Colombia.
Type: Colombia. Cauca: Páramo de Guanacas, 2700-3000 m, Lehmann 4961 (holotype, B?, photo NY; isotypes, F, GH).
Description: Shrub; stems terete, striate, glabrous, brownish. Leaves thick-coriaceous, lanceolate, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 9-18 x 2-4 cm, basally cuneate-attenuate, apically acute, entire and strongly revolute at margins, glabrous; pinnately veined, midrib and lateral nerves (3-5 per side) impressed above and prominent beneath, reticulate veinlets nearly plane on both surfaces; petiole rugose, 6-10 mm long, glabrous, narrowly winged. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, 10-20-flowered, glabrous in all parts; rachis subterete, 2-8 cm long; pedicels rugose, 18-40 mm long; floral bract oblong, ca. 3 mm long; bracteoles located below the middle, acute. Flowers with calyx 6-9 mm long; hypanthium strongly rugose, short-cylindric, 3-4 mm long and ca. 5 mm diam.; limb spreading, 3-5 mm long; lobes ovate-apiculate, 1-1.5 mm long; corolla coriaceous-carnose, broadly conical, ventricose below, 8-12 mm long and ca. 7 mm in diam., the lobes erect, thick-carnose, 1.5-2 mm long; stamens 10, 6.5-8.5 mm long; filaments connate at base, glabrous to slightly puberulous dorsally near apex, ca. 2.5 mm long; connectives 2-spurred, the spurs rounded and alternately larger; thecae stout, 3.5-5 mm long; tubules narowly cylindric, 2.5-3 mm long, dehiscing by clefts nearly their entire length; style stout, nearly as long as corolla; stigma truncate. Berry subspherical, to 12 mm diam.
Distribution: Endemic to Colombia.
Type: Colombia. Cauca: Páramo de Guanacas, 2700-3000 m, Lehmann 4961 (holotype, B?, photo NY; isotypes, F, GH).
Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):
Psammisia lehmannii Hoerold: [Article] 1909. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 270, 305.
Psammisia lehmannii Hoerold: [Article] 1909. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 270, 305.