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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Primary Citation:

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 71: 407. 1941

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Common Names:

gualicón

Description:

Description: Epiphytic shrub to 2 m tall, sometimes climbing to 15 m; stem terete to subterete, striate, glabrous, the bark grayish-brown, cracking longitudinally; twigs terete or complanate and bluntly angled, striate to ribbed, glabrous or puberulent. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, 10-30 x 3-9 cm, base rounded or obtuse, sometimes unequal, apex acuminate to short-acuminate, margin entire, flat or revolute especially near base, glabrous but minutely reddish-brown glandular-fimbriate on both surfaces; 3-5-plinerved or often pinnately nerved with 2-4 pairs of lateral nerves, nerves arising from basal 2/3 of the midrib, midrib thickened and raised in the proximal 2.5-6 cm and then distally impressed above, conspicuously raised beneath, lateral nerves impressed above and conspicuous, raised beneath, reticulate veinlets impressed above and raised beneath, sometimes inconspicuous; petiole thick, terete, rugose, 6-10 mm long, glabrous or puberulent. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, often clustered into "pincushion", often from leafless nodes, 6-15-flowered; rachis angled, striate, congested, up to 1 cm long, glabrous or puberulent; floral bract persistent, ovate-oblong, acute to acuminate or rounded, ca. 1.5-2 mm long, ciliolate, marginally finely glandular-fimbriate; pedicel thin, striate, 8-10(-12) mm long, glabrous or puberulent; bracteoles located in lower 1/3 of pedicel, similar to the floral bract. Flowers with calyx 3-4 mm long, glabrous or puberulent; hypanthium spherical or pentagonal when dry, rugose, 1.5-2 mm long; limb campanulate, 1.5-2 mm long; lobes broadly deltate, acute, ca. 0.5 mm long; sinuses rounded; corolla cylindric, 8-10 mm long and 4-5 mm diam., glabrous or weakly puberulent at apex but with scattered fimbriae, red, the lobes deltate, acute, ca. 1 mm long, acute, white; stamen alternately ca. 4 mm and 5-6 mm long; filaments 1.5-2.5 mm long, glabrous to slightly pilose ventrally where free; anthers alternately 3-4.5 mm and 4-5 mm long; thecae ca. 2-3 mm long; tubules ca. 1.5-2 mm long, the apex not ornamented; style slightly exserted, 9-10 mm long. Berry not seen.

Distribution: Ecuador and N Peru (1 collection); premontane rainforest and wet montane forest, at 800-2000 m altitude. Infrequent.

Type: Ecuador. Pastaza: Along Río Pastaza, Mera, 1000 m, 21 Nov 1938 (fl), Schultze-Rhonhof 3010 (holotype, B?; lectotype, designated by Luteyn (1996), K fragment ex B holotype --one leaf and flowers).

Local name: gualicón.

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Satyria leucostoma Sleumer: [Article] Smith, Albert C. 1952. Plants collected in Ecuador by W. H. camp. Vaceiniaceae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8 (1): 41-85.
Satyria leucostoma Sleumer: [Article] 1941. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 71: 407.