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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Primary Citation:

"Murrí" (Antioquia Department, Colombia): Hotspot for neotropical blueberries (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae).
Brittonia 51: 282. 1999

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Type Specimens:

Specimen 1: Isotype -- J. L. Luteyn

Description:

Species Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub to 3 m tall; mature branches and twigs terete, weakly striate, glabrous, somewhat glaucous; bark thin, dark reddish-brown. Leaves stiff-coriaceous when dry, ovate, 12-17 x 6.5-10.5 cm, basally broadly rounded, sometimes subcordate, apically abruptly short-acuminate, marginally entire and slightly revolute near base, glabrous on both surfaces, but with glandular fimbriae beneath; 5-9-plinerved from the base, the midrib, lateral nerves, and reticulate veinlets conspicuously raised on both surfaces; petioles terete, conspicuously rugose, 8-11 mm long and ca. 3 mm diam., glabrous. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, 8-13-flowered; rachis strongly angled, 6-7 cm long and 2-3 mm diam. at base, glabrous, pink when fresh; floral bract chartaceous, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 30-45 x 20-30 mm, apically obtuse to rounded, glabrous, dark scarlet when fresh; pedicel subterete, ribbed to bluntly angled, 9-10 mm long, glabrous; bracteoles nearly basal, oblong-lanceolate, acute, ca. 1.5 mm long, glandular-callose the distal one-half, glabrous. Flowers with calyx glabrous, green to suffused with pink when fresh, 10-15 mm long; hypanthium cylindric, coarsely 10-ribbed, 4-5 mm long, basally apophysate and deeply lobed with lobes pointing back; limb cylindric to distally slightly spreading, conspicuously striate, 6-10 mm long; lobes triangular, 2-3 mm long, erect after anthesis, completely glandular-callose in distal one-half, green and viscid when fresh; corolla cylindric, slightly constricted at throat, somewhat translucent when dry, 32-36 mm long and ca. 8 mm diam., glabrous, pearl-white and nitid when fresh, the lobes triangular, obtuse, ca. 1-2 mm long, white with the margins purple; stamens 29 mm long; filaments ventrally moderately short-pilose, alternately 6 mm and 10 mm long; anthers alternately 27 mm and 21 mm long; thecae 9-12 mm long; style ca. 30-34 mm long. Berry not seen.

Distribution: Endemic to Colombia and known only from Antioquia Department

Conservation Status: Rare and endangered

Type: Colombia. Antioquia: Mun. Frontino, Correg. Nutibara, region of Murrí, ca. 5-7 km W of Alto de Cuevas, ca. 6°45'N, 75°76'W, ca. 1300-1400 m, 19-20 Oct 1987 (fl), Luteyn & Sylva S. 11733 (holotype: HUA; isotypes: AAU, CAS, COL, K, MO, NY, TEX, US).