Taxon Details: Cavendishia bomareoides A.C.Sm.
Taxon Profile:
Narratives:
Family:
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Cavendishia bomareoides A.C.Sm.
Cavendishia bomareoides A.C.Sm.
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Description: Terrestrial shrub to 2.5 m tall; mature branches and twigs subterete, bluntly angled, striate, glabrate to pilose-hispid with reddish-brown or white hairs to 1 mm long, stems tan to reddish-brown, sometimes glaucous. Leaves oblong, elliptic, lance-elliptic or ovate, 7-16(-24) x 3-5.5(-9) cm, basally subcordate, apically long-acuminate sometimes abruptly acuminate, puberulous with hairs to 0.3 mm long or glabrate above, glabrous or persistently pilose-hispid beneath with hairs to 0.7 mm long, glandular fimbriae conspicuously persistent beneath; 5(-7)-plinerved, midrib conspicuously thickened and raised through proximal 1-2.5 cm, otherwise impressed above and raised beneath, lateral nerves slighlty impressed above but raised and prominent beneath, veinlets slightly raised and conspicuous on both surfaces; petioles terete, rugose, (4-)7-10 mm long and 1.2-2.5 mm diam., densely pilose when young but glabrate at maturity. Inflorescence 20-30-flowered; rachis bluntly angled, smooth or slightly striate, glabrous, 6-12 cm long and 3-4 mm diam.; floral bracts smooth, oblong or oblanceolate, 22-35 x 17-20 mm, basally obtuse, apically rounded to obtuse rarely callose-apiculate, glabrous, dark red to wine-purple; pedicels swollen distally, striate, glabrous, 6-12 mm long and 1 mm diam.; bracteoles basal, ovate-elliptic, oblong, or broadly elliptic, 2-5 x 2-3 mm, apically acute or cuspidate, glandular-callose only at tip. Flowers: calyx glabrous, 7-8 mm long; hypanthium short-cylindric, rugose, coarsely ribbed, muricate, 2.5-3.5 mm long, basally strongly apophysate and deeply 5-lobed; limb erect, cylindric, striate, rugose, 4.5 mm long; lobes broadly triangular, acute, 1.5-2 mm long, erect after anthesis, completely glandular-callose; sinuses obtuse; corolla cylindric, 22-30 mm long and 4.5-5 mm diam., glabrous, white (fide label of type), lobes triangular, subacute, 1-1.5 mm long, tips glandular-callose; stamens 20-27 mm long; filaments weakly short-pilose distal half ventrally or the short ones glabrous, alternately 2-2.5 mm and 5-8 mm long; anthers alternately 19.5-26 mm and 13-21 mm long; thecae 6-11 mm long; style 19-26 mm long. Mature berry not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to NW Colombia, where it occurs along disturbed roadside slopes and rocky stream banks, in the Cordillera Occidental of Chocó and Risaralda Depts., and in the Cordillera Central of Antioquia Dept., at elevations of 2160-2800 m.
Type: Colombia. Risaralda (formerly Caldas): Cordillera Occidental, Río San Rafael below Cerro Tatamá, 2500-2800 m, 7-11 Sep 1922 (fl), Pennell 10402 (holotype, NY, photo NY neg. 9685; isotype, GH, photo NY neg. 9172).
Description: Terrestrial shrub to 2.5 m tall; mature branches and twigs subterete, bluntly angled, striate, glabrate to pilose-hispid with reddish-brown or white hairs to 1 mm long, stems tan to reddish-brown, sometimes glaucous. Leaves oblong, elliptic, lance-elliptic or ovate, 7-16(-24) x 3-5.5(-9) cm, basally subcordate, apically long-acuminate sometimes abruptly acuminate, puberulous with hairs to 0.3 mm long or glabrate above, glabrous or persistently pilose-hispid beneath with hairs to 0.7 mm long, glandular fimbriae conspicuously persistent beneath; 5(-7)-plinerved, midrib conspicuously thickened and raised through proximal 1-2.5 cm, otherwise impressed above and raised beneath, lateral nerves slighlty impressed above but raised and prominent beneath, veinlets slightly raised and conspicuous on both surfaces; petioles terete, rugose, (4-)7-10 mm long and 1.2-2.5 mm diam., densely pilose when young but glabrate at maturity. Inflorescence 20-30-flowered; rachis bluntly angled, smooth or slightly striate, glabrous, 6-12 cm long and 3-4 mm diam.; floral bracts smooth, oblong or oblanceolate, 22-35 x 17-20 mm, basally obtuse, apically rounded to obtuse rarely callose-apiculate, glabrous, dark red to wine-purple; pedicels swollen distally, striate, glabrous, 6-12 mm long and 1 mm diam.; bracteoles basal, ovate-elliptic, oblong, or broadly elliptic, 2-5 x 2-3 mm, apically acute or cuspidate, glandular-callose only at tip. Flowers: calyx glabrous, 7-8 mm long; hypanthium short-cylindric, rugose, coarsely ribbed, muricate, 2.5-3.5 mm long, basally strongly apophysate and deeply 5-lobed; limb erect, cylindric, striate, rugose, 4.5 mm long; lobes broadly triangular, acute, 1.5-2 mm long, erect after anthesis, completely glandular-callose; sinuses obtuse; corolla cylindric, 22-30 mm long and 4.5-5 mm diam., glabrous, white (fide label of type), lobes triangular, subacute, 1-1.5 mm long, tips glandular-callose; stamens 20-27 mm long; filaments weakly short-pilose distal half ventrally or the short ones glabrous, alternately 2-2.5 mm and 5-8 mm long; anthers alternately 19.5-26 mm and 13-21 mm long; thecae 6-11 mm long; style 19-26 mm long. Mature berry not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to NW Colombia, where it occurs along disturbed roadside slopes and rocky stream banks, in the Cordillera Occidental of Chocó and Risaralda Depts., and in the Cordillera Central of Antioquia Dept., at elevations of 2160-2800 m.
Type: Colombia. Risaralda (formerly Caldas): Cordillera Occidental, Río San Rafael below Cerro Tatamá, 2500-2800 m, 7-11 Sep 1922 (fl), Pennell 10402 (holotype, NY, photo NY neg. 9685; isotype, GH, photo NY neg. 9172).
Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):
Cavendishia bomareoides A.C.Sm.: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.
Cavendishia bomareoides A.C.Sm.: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.
Related Objects:
• F. W. Pennell 10402, holotype; South America
• J. L. Luteyn 7157, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 7052, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 12463, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 12466, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 11945, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 13186, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 12708, Colombia
• J. L. Zarucchi 5683, Colombia
• L. K. Albert de Escobar 1623, Colombia
• P. Pedraza-Peñalosa 1099, Colombia
• P. Pedraza-Peñalosa 2156, Colombia
• P. Pedraza-Peñalosa 1752, Colombia
• P. Acevedo-Rodríguez 1103, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 12004, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 13308, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 7175, Colombia
• R. A. Toro 1172, Colombia
• A. Gómez 911, Colombia
• A. Gómez 546, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 7157, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 7052, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 12463, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 12466, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 11945, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 13186, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 12708, Colombia
• J. L. Zarucchi 5683, Colombia
• L. K. Albert de Escobar 1623, Colombia
• P. Pedraza-Peñalosa 1099, Colombia
• P. Pedraza-Peñalosa 2156, Colombia
• P. Pedraza-Peñalosa 1752, Colombia
• P. Acevedo-Rodríguez 1103, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 12004, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 13308, Colombia
• J. L. Luteyn 7175, Colombia
• R. A. Toro 1172, Colombia
• A. Gómez 911, Colombia
• A. Gómez 546, Colombia