Taxon Details: Vaccinium santafeense Wilbur & Luteyn
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Family:
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Vaccinium santafeense Wilbur & Luteyn
Vaccinium santafeense Wilbur & Luteyn
Primary Citation:
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 65: 140. 1978
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 65: 140. 1978
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Description: Epiphytic shrub to 3 m tall, vegetatively glabrous throughout; mature stems and twigs terete, gray to light brown when dry. Leaves elliptic, drying subcoriaceous, 5-8 x 2-3 cm, basally cuneate, apically acute, acuminate or tapering into a pronounced drip-tip 8-12 mm long; venation pinnate, the midvein elevated proximally above sunken distally, elevated throughout beneath; petioles dorsiventrally compressed, 6-11 mm long and 1.5-2 mm wide. Inflorescences short-racemose or subcorymbose, 2-8-flowered; rachis terete, smooth or weakly striate, 5-9 mm long; pedicels terete, smooth to finely striate, 8-12 mm long at anthesis; floral bracts ovate to oblong ovate, keeled, acute, irregularly and minutely marginally fimbriate, 1-1.2 mm long, appressed; bracteoles slightly smaller and more closely appressed, ca. 1 mm long, minutely fimbriate. Flowers with the calyx ca. 2 mm long, terete, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., sharply articulate with the pedicel, the disarticulating groove marked by fimbriae; limb shallowly campanulate to flaring, ca. 1 mm long; lobes 5, ca. 0.6 mm long, broadly triangular; sinuses shallowly indented to almost flat; corolla cylindric, abruptly contracted for the lower 1.5-2 mm where 2.2-2.5 mm in diam., 4-4.2 mm in diam. above, 8-9 mm long, "light pink," the lobes 5, triangular, acute, erect, 2-2.5 mm long; stamens 10, 6-7 mm long; filaments distinct or weakly coherent basally, flattened, 2-2.2 mm long and ca. 0.5 mm wide, distally ciliate; anthers medifixed, 2-2.5 mm long; thecae coarsely granular; tubules 3-3.2 mm long, dehiscing by elongate, lateral clefts 2-2.5 mm long; style exserted, 9-10 mm long. Mature berry not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to central Panama, and only known from ca. 5 collections.
Type: Panama. Veraguas: below summit of Cerro Tute, NW of Santa Fé, 2 km from Escuala Agrícola Alto de Piedra, Mori & Kallunki 5248 (holotype, MO).
Description: Epiphytic shrub to 3 m tall, vegetatively glabrous throughout; mature stems and twigs terete, gray to light brown when dry. Leaves elliptic, drying subcoriaceous, 5-8 x 2-3 cm, basally cuneate, apically acute, acuminate or tapering into a pronounced drip-tip 8-12 mm long; venation pinnate, the midvein elevated proximally above sunken distally, elevated throughout beneath; petioles dorsiventrally compressed, 6-11 mm long and 1.5-2 mm wide. Inflorescences short-racemose or subcorymbose, 2-8-flowered; rachis terete, smooth or weakly striate, 5-9 mm long; pedicels terete, smooth to finely striate, 8-12 mm long at anthesis; floral bracts ovate to oblong ovate, keeled, acute, irregularly and minutely marginally fimbriate, 1-1.2 mm long, appressed; bracteoles slightly smaller and more closely appressed, ca. 1 mm long, minutely fimbriate. Flowers with the calyx ca. 2 mm long, terete, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., sharply articulate with the pedicel, the disarticulating groove marked by fimbriae; limb shallowly campanulate to flaring, ca. 1 mm long; lobes 5, ca. 0.6 mm long, broadly triangular; sinuses shallowly indented to almost flat; corolla cylindric, abruptly contracted for the lower 1.5-2 mm where 2.2-2.5 mm in diam., 4-4.2 mm in diam. above, 8-9 mm long, "light pink," the lobes 5, triangular, acute, erect, 2-2.5 mm long; stamens 10, 6-7 mm long; filaments distinct or weakly coherent basally, flattened, 2-2.2 mm long and ca. 0.5 mm wide, distally ciliate; anthers medifixed, 2-2.5 mm long; thecae coarsely granular; tubules 3-3.2 mm long, dehiscing by elongate, lateral clefts 2-2.5 mm long; style exserted, 9-10 mm long. Mature berry not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to central Panama, and only known from ca. 5 collections.
Type: Panama. Veraguas: below summit of Cerro Tute, NW of Santa Fé, 2 km from Escuala Agrícola Alto de Piedra, Mori & Kallunki 5248 (holotype, MO).
Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):
Vaccinium santafeense Wilbur & Luteyn: [Article] 1978. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 65: 140.
Vaccinium santafeense Wilbur & Luteyn: [Article] 1978. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 65: 140.