Taxon Details: Macleania poortmannii Drake
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Family:
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Macleania poortmannii Drake
Macleania poortmannii Drake
Primary Citation:
J. Bot. 3: 74. 1889
J. Bot. 3: 74. 1889
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Common Names:
joyapa
joyapa
Description:
Description: Terrestrial shrub to 4 m tall or sometimes small tree up to 8 m tall; stem terete to subterete, striate, glabrous; twigs subterete, complanate, striate to sharply ribbed, nitid, glabrous. Leaves elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or subspatulate, 3-8.5 x 1-3 cm, base cuneate and (sometimes abruptly) long-attenuate onto the petiole, apex narrowing and rounded or obtuse, margin entire, slightly thickened and revolute, remotely crenulate, glabrous, but often densely glandular-fimbriate and sometimes subsequently punctate near base of both surfaces; pinnately nerved with 2-3 lateral nerves per side, midrib thickened and raised in the proximal 1-2 cm then impressed distally above, raised beneath, lateral nerves arcuate-ascending, impressed above and raised beneath, reticulate veinlets plane to slightly impressed above but generally obscure on both surfaces, all nerves usually lighter color beneath; petiole subterete, often carinate above, slightly winged, rugose, 3-9 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescence (subfasciculate ?) to short-racemose, 2-7-flowered, bracts deciduous; floral bract persistent, reflexed after anthesis, ovate, acuminate, 1.5-2.5 x ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous; rachis congested, nodes overlapping and swollen, 3-7 mm long, glabrous; pedicel subterete, stout, sharply ribbed, 4-8 mm long, glabrous, but often coarsely glandular-fimbriate at articulation; bracteoles variably located from near base to near apex, broadly ovate, acute, ca. 1.5 x 1.5 mm, glabrous. Flowers with calyx 2.5-3.5(-6) mm long, glabrous; hypanthium campanulate, 1.5-2(-4) mm long, the base truncate; limb spreading-campanulate, 1-2 mm long; lobes deltate, acute, apiculate, ca. 0.5-1 x 1.5 mm; sinuses rounded; corolla subcylindric, terete or broadly pentagonal, 11-15 mm long and 3-4 mm diam. when dry (ca 6 mm diam. when fresh), glabrous but sometimes with scattered glandular fimbriae distally, orangish-red, the lobes spreading, oblong-triangular, acute, 1-3 mm long; stamen nearly as long as corolla, 8-10.5 mm long; filaments distinct, 1-2.5 mm long, sparsely pilose at distal margins; anthers 7-9.5 mm long; thecae 3.8-5 mm long; tubules 2, laterally connate, 3-4.5 mm long, dehiscing by clefts 1-1.5 mm long; style exserted, to mm 19 long, glabrous; nectariferous disc conspicuously annular-pulvinate, glabrous. Berry ovoid, up to 10 mm diam.
Distribution: Endemic to Ecuador; montane wet forest to subpáramo forest, at 1400-3323 m altitude.
Type: Ecuador. Loja: vicinity of Loja, 8 Nov 1881 (fl), Poortmann 126 (holotype, P, fragment ex P at NY, photo NY s.n.; isotype, P).
Local name: joyapa.
Uses: fruit edible.
Description: Terrestrial shrub to 4 m tall or sometimes small tree up to 8 m tall; stem terete to subterete, striate, glabrous; twigs subterete, complanate, striate to sharply ribbed, nitid, glabrous. Leaves elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or subspatulate, 3-8.5 x 1-3 cm, base cuneate and (sometimes abruptly) long-attenuate onto the petiole, apex narrowing and rounded or obtuse, margin entire, slightly thickened and revolute, remotely crenulate, glabrous, but often densely glandular-fimbriate and sometimes subsequently punctate near base of both surfaces; pinnately nerved with 2-3 lateral nerves per side, midrib thickened and raised in the proximal 1-2 cm then impressed distally above, raised beneath, lateral nerves arcuate-ascending, impressed above and raised beneath, reticulate veinlets plane to slightly impressed above but generally obscure on both surfaces, all nerves usually lighter color beneath; petiole subterete, often carinate above, slightly winged, rugose, 3-9 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescence (subfasciculate ?) to short-racemose, 2-7-flowered, bracts deciduous; floral bract persistent, reflexed after anthesis, ovate, acuminate, 1.5-2.5 x ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous; rachis congested, nodes overlapping and swollen, 3-7 mm long, glabrous; pedicel subterete, stout, sharply ribbed, 4-8 mm long, glabrous, but often coarsely glandular-fimbriate at articulation; bracteoles variably located from near base to near apex, broadly ovate, acute, ca. 1.5 x 1.5 mm, glabrous. Flowers with calyx 2.5-3.5(-6) mm long, glabrous; hypanthium campanulate, 1.5-2(-4) mm long, the base truncate; limb spreading-campanulate, 1-2 mm long; lobes deltate, acute, apiculate, ca. 0.5-1 x 1.5 mm; sinuses rounded; corolla subcylindric, terete or broadly pentagonal, 11-15 mm long and 3-4 mm diam. when dry (ca 6 mm diam. when fresh), glabrous but sometimes with scattered glandular fimbriae distally, orangish-red, the lobes spreading, oblong-triangular, acute, 1-3 mm long; stamen nearly as long as corolla, 8-10.5 mm long; filaments distinct, 1-2.5 mm long, sparsely pilose at distal margins; anthers 7-9.5 mm long; thecae 3.8-5 mm long; tubules 2, laterally connate, 3-4.5 mm long, dehiscing by clefts 1-1.5 mm long; style exserted, to mm 19 long, glabrous; nectariferous disc conspicuously annular-pulvinate, glabrous. Berry ovoid, up to 10 mm diam.
Distribution: Endemic to Ecuador; montane wet forest to subpáramo forest, at 1400-3323 m altitude.
Type: Ecuador. Loja: vicinity of Loja, 8 Nov 1881 (fl), Poortmann 126 (holotype, P, fragment ex P at NY, photo NY s.n.; isotype, P).
Local name: joyapa.
Uses: fruit edible.