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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Primary Citation:

Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 9: 436. 1925

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Type Specimens:

Specimen 1: Lectotype -- A. Weberbauer

Description:

Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub, 2-3 m tall; stem terete, bluntly angled, striate, glabrous; mature twigs subterete, complanate and bluntly angled, striate, glabrous, the newly flushing twigs so densely farinose with flattish, translucent, whitish to yellowish-white, brittle hairs as to totally obscure surface. Leaves thick-coriaceous, bullate, elliptic to ovate-elliptic or obovate, usually broadest above the middle, (3.5-)7-12(-16) x (2-)4.5-8(-11) cm, base rounded and short-attentuate or more usually broadly cuneate-attentuate, apex obtuse to rounded or acute, glabrous above but densely yet loosely short-pilose beneath with flat, crisped, white hairs, glabrate; pinnately nerved with 2-3 lateral nerves per side, midrib conspicuously thickened and raised in the proximal ca. 2 cm then distally impressed above, conspicuously raised beneath, lateral nerves and reticulate veinlets prominently impressed above and raised beneath; petiole subterete, strongly rugose, narrowly winged and carinate above, stout, 7-15 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescence axillary, fasciculate, 4-8-flowered, all parts densely farinose-pubescent with white to whitish-yellow, translucent, brittle hairs to 0.3 mm long; rachis none; floral bract ovate or elliptic, acute, striate, 3-7 x ca. 3 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate, glabrate; pedicel subterete, striate, widening distally, 5-10 mm long; bracteoles medial to apical, ovate, acuminate, 3-4.7 mm long, marginally glandular-fimbriate, glabrate. Flowers with calyx weakly and obscurely articulate, 6-8 mm long; hypanthium ± cylindric, 10-ribbed, 3-4 mm long; limb campanulate, 3-4(-5.5) mm long; lobes ovate-triangular, acute, 2-3 mm long; sinuses rounded or acute; corolla carnose, cylindric, bluntly pentagonal, 11-16 mm long and ca. 4-5 mm diam. when dry (ca 8 mm diam. fresh), bearing scattered glandular fimbriae throughout, pink to rose-red, the lobes spreading, triangular, acute, bistratose, 2-4 mm long; stamen 10, 8.5-10 mm long; filaments distinct, 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous, the alternate connectives sometimes somewhat shouldered; anthers 2.5-9 mm long; thecae 4-5.5 mm long; tubules 2, laterally connate for most length, 3-4.5 mm long, dehiscing by clefts ca. 1.8 mm long; style exserted, to 19 mm long, glabrous. Berry not seen.

Distribution: Southern Ecuador and northern Peru; montane cloud and rainforest, at 2440-2950 m altitude. Rare.

Type: Peru. Cajamarca: E of Huancabamba, above Tabacónas, 2400-2500 m, 10 Apr 1912 (fl), Weberbauer 6120 (holotype, B?; lectotype, designated by Luteyn (1996), NY, photo NY neg. 9987; isolectotypes, CAS, F, GH, US).

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Macleania farinosa Mansf.: [Article] 1925. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem. 9: 436.