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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Primary Citation:

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 303. 1909

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Common Names:

chacilulu

Description:

Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub 1-2 m tall, often becoming lianoid with branches scrambling to 7 m long; stem and twigs terete or subterete, smooth or striate, nitid, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong, elliptic, or lance-elliptic, 9-14 x 2-4.5 cm, base cuneate and decurrent on the petiole, apex long- acuminate, margin entire, glabrous or rarely nerves puberulent beneath; 3-5-plinerved, midrib and lateral nerves slightly impressed or raised above, conspicuously raised beneath, reticulate veinlets impressed or more frequently raised above, raised and usually conspicuous beneath; petiole terete to subterete, somewhat flattened above, rugose, 4-6 mm long, glabrous or puberulent. Inflorescence racemose, 8-20-flowered; rachis subterete or bluntly angled, 2-10 cm long, glabrous or rarely puberulent; floral bract ovate, acute to acuminate, 2-3(-6) x 1-1.5 mm, glabrous, marginally scarious; pedicel cylindric, 10-29 mm long and 1-1.5 mm diam., lengthening to 40 mm after anthesis, glabrous or rarely puberulent, red to crimson; bracteoles similar to the floral bracts, but 2-3(-5) mm long. Flowers with the calyx ca. 4-5 mm long, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent to short-pilose; hypanthium campanulate, slightly rugose, 2-3 mm long, dull crimson; limb campanulate-spreading, 2-4 mm long, sometimes irregularly cleft; lobes ovate or oblong-ovate, apiculate, 1-3 mm long, the margin thin and appearing torn, crimson tipped with yellow; sinuses acute; corolla cylindric, doubly constricted, narrowed at the throat, 22-33 mm long and 5-7 mm diam., glabrous or rarely puberulent, crimson to second constriction, the apex and lobes white, the lobes spreading, oblong-triangular, acute or obtuse, ca. 2-3 mm long; stamen 8-14 mm long; filaments connate (rarely loosely united) into a tube 3-5 mm long, distally ciliate, the connective weakly spurred to all spurred but alternately more conspicuous; anthers 5.5-11 mm long; thecae slightly granular, ca. 3-6.5 mm long; tubules connate below, 2.5-4.5 mm long, dehiscing by clefts 1.5-2 mm long; style exserted, 22-29 mm long. Immature berry spherical, ca. 10 mm diam.

Distribution: Colombia and Ecuador; lower montane wet forest to montane cloud forest, at 1100-2880 m altitude.

Type: Colombia. Cauca: Cordillera Central, 2500-2800 m, Mar-Apr (fl), Lehmann 4452 (holotype, B?, photos F neg. 4686 and ACS neg. 142; lectotype, designated by Luteyn (1996), NY fragment ex B; isolectotype, K).

Illustration: Luteyn (1996), plate 1.

Local name: Ecuador: chacilulu.

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Psammisia columbiensis Hoerold: [Article] Smith, Albert C. 1952. Plants collected in Ecuador by W. H. camp. Vaceiniaceae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8 (1): 41-85.
Psammisia columbiensis Hoerold: [Article] 1909. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 303.