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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Primary Citation:

Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8: 65. 1952

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Type Specimens:

Specimen 1: Isotype -- W. H. Camp

Common Names:

jayapa

Description:

Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic, sometimes subrecumbent, sometimes lianoid shrub with branches to 2.5 m long, sometimes arising from a lignotuber; stem thin, subterete, glabrous; bark peeling off in thin sheets; twigs subterete to strongly complanate, bluntly angled, nitid, glarous. Leaves subcoriaceous, flat or sometimes bullate, ovate, (3.5-)7-14(-17) x 2-7(-9) cm, base acute and decurrent onto the petiole to rounded, rarely subcordate, apex short- to long-acuminate, margin entire and slightly revolute, sometimes conspicuously recurved in proximal 1/3 near base, glabrous but minutely glandular-fimbriate beneath; 5(-7)-plinerved, midrib thickened and raised in the proximal 2-3 cm then distally impressed above, raised beneath, lateral nerves impressed above and strongly raised beneath, sometimes conspicuously so, inner pair of lateral nerves arising ca. 2 cm above the base, reticulate veinlets slightly raised on both surfaces; petiole subterete, flattened above, narrowly winged, rugose, 3-5 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, fasciculate, 1-3-flowered, surrounded at the base by many papyraceous, deltate, subacute bracts to ca. 1 mm long; floral bract ovate, (long-)acuminate, to 2.5 mm long, glabrous but marginally glandular-fimbriate; pedicel thin, striate, 7-9 mm long; bracteoles basal, similar to floral bract. Flowers with calyx inconspicuously articulate with the pedicel, turbinate, 7-10 mm long; hypanthium obprismatic, elongate, 5.5-7 mm long, 5-winged over entire length but not extending distally beyond the limb margin, sometimes glandular-fimbriate near base; limb spreading-campanulate, 1.5-3 mm long; lobes apiculate, < 1 mm long; sinuses complanate; corolla carnose, cylindric, slightly narrowed at throat, pentagonal, (16-)23-25 mm long and ca. 8 mm diam. when fresh, glabrous without but white pilose within, deep coral-red, the lobes spreading and reflexed, oblong, subacute, ca. 3 mm long; stamen 10-11 mm long; filaments connate into a tube, 5-6 mm long; anthers 5-8 mm long; thecae 3.5-5 mm long, the base incurved; tubules fused into one, 2-3 mm long, dehiscing by a cleft ca. 2 mm long; style subequalling corolla or exserted, glabrous. Berry translucent white.

Distribution: Endemic to Ecuador; premontane to montane cloud forest at 475-2400 m altitude. Rare.

Type: Ecuador. El Oro: Moromoro region, ca. 21 mi W of Portovelo, 1035-1280 m, 7 Oct 1944 (fl), Camp E-627 (holotype, US; isotype, NY, photo of NY type NY neg. 9990).

Local name: jayapa [joyapa ?]

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Macleania recumbens A.C.Sm.: [Article] 1952. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8: 65.
Macleania recumbens A.C.Sm.: [Article] Smith, Albert C. 1952. Plants collected in Ecuador by W. H. camp. Vaceiniaceae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8 (1): 41-85.