Taxon Details: Cavendishia sophoclesioides A.C.Sm.
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Family:
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Cavendishia sophoclesioides A.C.Sm.
Cavendishia sophoclesioides A.C.Sm.
Primary Citation:
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 60: 118. 1933
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 60: 118. 1933
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Description: Compact, somewhat scandent, epiphytic shrub with stems 1-2 dm long; mature branches terete or subterete, striate, glabrous, brownish, old leafless nodes prominently raised; twigs subterete, bluntly angled, striate, densely pilose. Leaves elliptic, 10-15 x 7-8.5 mm, rounded at both ends, margin thickened, glabrous, weakly nerved with apparently 3-4 nerves per side, midrib weakly impressed through proximal half otherwise plane above and weakly raised but obscure beneath, lateral veins obscure on both surfacs; petiole subterete, conspicuously broadly channelled above rugose 1-3 mm long and 0.5-1.4 mm diam., pilose, glabrate. Inflorescence composed of a single flower enveloped by a series of glabrous, marginally glandular-fimbriate bracts attached to a short peduncle 0.5-1.5 mm long; rachis none; the first series of inflorescence (sterile) bracts ovate to ca. 3 mm long and 4 mm broad, the next 7-10 bracts (floral bracts) oblong, 8-15 x 7 mm; pedicel ca. 0.5 mm long; bracteoles more or less basal, oblong, ca. 1.5 x 0.5 mm, glabrous, marginally glandular-fimbriate. Flowers: calyx glabrous, ca. 4.3 mm long; hypanthium obconic or campanulate, rugose, ca. 1.5-2 mm long; limb campanulate or erecto-patent, ca. 2.5-2.8 mm long; lobes triangular, acute, ca. 1.2 mm long, marginally densely glandular-fimbriate with the fimbriae laterally fusing; sinuses narrowly obtuse; corolla cylindric, slightly zygomorphic, ca. 20 mm long and 4-5 mm diam., seemingly membranaceous the proximal half and coriaceous the distal half, red but distally yellow (fide label data), lobes oblong, obtuse, ca. 2 mm long; stamens ca. 16 mm long; filaments pilose ventrally but the long filaments also bearing few hairs on dorsal surface, alternatley ca. 1.5 m and 2.5 mm long; anthers subequal, 14-15 mm long; thecae 3-4 mm long; style subequal to corolla. Berry not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to Colombia and known only from the type collections, the exact location of which I am uncertain, in the shrub zone below Páramo de Chaquiro, at elevations of 2800-3100 m. Flowering in February.
Type: Colombia. Antioquia (formerly Bolívar): Cordillera Occidental, below Páramo de Chaquiro, 2800-3100 m, 24 Feb 1918 (fl), Pennell 4354 (holotype: NY, photo NY neg. 9710).
Conservation Status: Rare and endangered.
Description: Compact, somewhat scandent, epiphytic shrub with stems 1-2 dm long; mature branches terete or subterete, striate, glabrous, brownish, old leafless nodes prominently raised; twigs subterete, bluntly angled, striate, densely pilose. Leaves elliptic, 10-15 x 7-8.5 mm, rounded at both ends, margin thickened, glabrous, weakly nerved with apparently 3-4 nerves per side, midrib weakly impressed through proximal half otherwise plane above and weakly raised but obscure beneath, lateral veins obscure on both surfacs; petiole subterete, conspicuously broadly channelled above rugose 1-3 mm long and 0.5-1.4 mm diam., pilose, glabrate. Inflorescence composed of a single flower enveloped by a series of glabrous, marginally glandular-fimbriate bracts attached to a short peduncle 0.5-1.5 mm long; rachis none; the first series of inflorescence (sterile) bracts ovate to ca. 3 mm long and 4 mm broad, the next 7-10 bracts (floral bracts) oblong, 8-15 x 7 mm; pedicel ca. 0.5 mm long; bracteoles more or less basal, oblong, ca. 1.5 x 0.5 mm, glabrous, marginally glandular-fimbriate. Flowers: calyx glabrous, ca. 4.3 mm long; hypanthium obconic or campanulate, rugose, ca. 1.5-2 mm long; limb campanulate or erecto-patent, ca. 2.5-2.8 mm long; lobes triangular, acute, ca. 1.2 mm long, marginally densely glandular-fimbriate with the fimbriae laterally fusing; sinuses narrowly obtuse; corolla cylindric, slightly zygomorphic, ca. 20 mm long and 4-5 mm diam., seemingly membranaceous the proximal half and coriaceous the distal half, red but distally yellow (fide label data), lobes oblong, obtuse, ca. 2 mm long; stamens ca. 16 mm long; filaments pilose ventrally but the long filaments also bearing few hairs on dorsal surface, alternatley ca. 1.5 m and 2.5 mm long; anthers subequal, 14-15 mm long; thecae 3-4 mm long; style subequal to corolla. Berry not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to Colombia and known only from the type collections, the exact location of which I am uncertain, in the shrub zone below Páramo de Chaquiro, at elevations of 2800-3100 m. Flowering in February.
Type: Colombia. Antioquia (formerly Bolívar): Cordillera Occidental, below Páramo de Chaquiro, 2800-3100 m, 24 Feb 1918 (fl), Pennell 4354 (holotype: NY, photo NY neg. 9710).
Conservation Status: Rare and endangered.
Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):
Cavendishia sophoclesioides A.C.Sm.: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.
Cavendishia sophoclesioides A.C.Sm.: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.