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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Primary Citation:

Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 5: 38. 1942

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Description:

Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub to 2.5-6 m tall; stem subterete, bluntly angled, striate, glabrous to moderately short-pilose with white hairs; twigs subterete, glabrous to densely pilose. Leaves thick coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, ovate-elliptic, rarely ovate or oblanceolate, (11-)13-19(-25) x 4.5-9(-11) cm, basally rounded or obtuse but sometimes truncate, apically short-acuminate rarely abruptly so, glabrous to puberulent proximally along veins above, glabrous to pilose along veins beneath; 5-7(-9)-plinerved from near base, midrib and lateral nerves impressed above and raised beneath, reticulate veinlets plane to slightly impressed or raised above and raised but obscure beneath; petiole terete to subterete, rugose, 9-18 mm long and 2-3.5 mm diam., glabrous to pilose. Inflorescence 8-15-flowered, surrounded at base by appressed, oblong to semiorbicular bracts, the lowest coriaceous, densely pilose, green, the upper becoming membranous, glabrous or pilose only at tip, red; rachis subterete to sharply or coarsely angled, 1.5-3.5 cm long and 4-7 mm diam., often glandular-fimbriate, glabrous to densely short-pilose; floral bract basically appressed, muricate, oblong, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 30-47 x 25-33 mm, glabrous or pilose at tip, often marginally glandular-fimbriate, green at base becoming rose-red distally; pedicel subterete, striate, 7-15 mm long and 2-3.2 mm diam., glabrous or pilose, often with scattered glandular fimbriae; bracteoles oblong to linear-oblong, 4-6(-10) x 1-1.8 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate. Flowers with calyx 11-15 mm long; hypanthium barrel-shaped or somewhat campanulate, 4-5 mm long, the base truncate and usually weakly puberulent, often bearing rather broad and flat glandular fimbriae, green to pink but drying dark brown to black; limb cylindric, erect or slightly spreading, 7-9.5 mm long, glabrous, reddish to translucent pink but drying light brown; lobes oblong to oblong-trianglular, 3.5-5.5 x 1.5-4 mm, erect, spreading, or reflexed after anthesis, usually ciliate, marginally glandular-fimbriate; sinuses obtuse, ciliate; corolla cylindric, (24-)26-33 mm long and 7-11 mm diam., glabrous or weakly puberulent in distal 1/3, white with a red band in distal 1/4 at anthesis becoming totally red after anthesis, the lobes oblong-triangular, obtuse, 1-2 mm long; stamen 21-24 mm long; filaments usually distinct but rarely slightly coherent in lower half, weakly pilose dorsally, the short ones also ventrally, alternately 3-4.5 mm and 7-9.5 mm long; anthers alternately 19-21.5 mm and 14.5-18.5 mm long; thecae 5-10 mm long; style 25-35 mm long. Berry 11-12 mm diam.

Distribution: Colombia and Ecuador; primary forest, cloud forest, forest edge and subpáramo thickets at 1400-3200 m altitude.

Type: Colombia. Putumayo: along Río Putumayo at extreme E end of the Valley of Sibundoy, nr San Francisco, 2200 m, 1 Jan 1941 (fl), Cuatrecasas 11551 (holotype: A, photo NY neg. 9072; isotypes: COL, F, US).

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Cavendishia cuatrecasasii A.C.Sm.: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.