Taxon Details: Sphyrospermum klotzschianum (Mansf.) A.C.Sm.
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Family:
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Sphyrospermum klotzschianum (Mansf.) A.C.Sm.
Sphyrospermum klotzschianum (Mansf.) A.C.Sm.
Primary Citation:
Brittonia 1(4): 212. 1933
Brittonia 1(4): 212. 1933
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Description: Epiphytic shrub with semi-rigid branches; branchlets brownish, minutely puberulous, becoming glabrous and cinerous; petioles subrugose, 1-2 mm long; leaf-blades thick-coriaceous, ovate, 15-35 x 7-16 mm, rounded or lightly subcordate at base, obtuse at apex, entire at margins, glabrous; 3-plinerved from base, the nerves obscure or elevated beneath, the veinlets obscure; pedicels 14-18 mm long; flowers 4-merous, glabrous; calyx tube obconical, about 1.8 mm long and 1.5 mm diam. at anthesis; limb erecto-patent, 1-1.5 mm long; lobes deltate, subacute, ca. 0.8 mm long; corolla cylindric, about 8 mm long and 1.5-2 mm diam., the lobes deltate-ovate, subacute, ca. 1 mm long; stamens 8, subequal, nearly as long as corolla; filaments 4-4.5 mm long, pilose, the hairs pale, about 0.4 mm long; anthers 3 mm long; tubules about twice as long as the locules. Berry ellipsoid, 4-6 mm long and 2.5-3 mm diam.
Distribution: Vicinity of Mt. Roraima (Venezuela, Guyana-Brazil boundary area), probably present day Venezuela. Rare.
Type: Brazil: Vicinity of Mt. Roraima, 2500 m, Jan 1910 (fl), Ule 8718 (holotype: B?, frag. NY).
Description: Epiphytic shrub with semi-rigid branches; branchlets brownish, minutely puberulous, becoming glabrous and cinerous; petioles subrugose, 1-2 mm long; leaf-blades thick-coriaceous, ovate, 15-35 x 7-16 mm, rounded or lightly subcordate at base, obtuse at apex, entire at margins, glabrous; 3-plinerved from base, the nerves obscure or elevated beneath, the veinlets obscure; pedicels 14-18 mm long; flowers 4-merous, glabrous; calyx tube obconical, about 1.8 mm long and 1.5 mm diam. at anthesis; limb erecto-patent, 1-1.5 mm long; lobes deltate, subacute, ca. 0.8 mm long; corolla cylindric, about 8 mm long and 1.5-2 mm diam., the lobes deltate-ovate, subacute, ca. 1 mm long; stamens 8, subequal, nearly as long as corolla; filaments 4-4.5 mm long, pilose, the hairs pale, about 0.4 mm long; anthers 3 mm long; tubules about twice as long as the locules. Berry ellipsoid, 4-6 mm long and 2.5-3 mm diam.
Distribution: Vicinity of Mt. Roraima (Venezuela, Guyana-Brazil boundary area), probably present day Venezuela. Rare.
Type: Brazil: Vicinity of Mt. Roraima, 2500 m, Jan 1910 (fl), Ule 8718 (holotype: B?, frag. NY).
Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):
Sphyrospermum klotzschianum (Mansf.) A.C.Sm.: [Article] Maguire, Bassett. 1978. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part X. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 29: 1-288.
Sphyrospermum klotzschianum (Mansf.) A.C.Sm.: [Article] Maguire, Bassett. 1978. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part X. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 29: 1-288.