Taxon Details: Cavendishia dendrophila A.C.Sm.
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Family:
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Cavendishia dendrophila A.C.Sm.
Cavendishia dendrophila A.C.Sm.
Primary Citation:
Amer. J. Bot. 40: 474. 1953
Amer. J. Bot. 40: 474. 1953
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Description: Totally glabrous shrub; branches subterete, smooth or minutely striate, bluntly ridged. Leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 5-7 x 1.6-2.6 cm, basally rounded, apically long-acuminate, slightly revolute at very base, nitid; 3(-5)-plinerved from near base, midrib and lateral nerves impressed and conspicuous above, raised beneath but only midrib obvious, reticulate veinlets obscure on both surfaces; petiole subterete or slightly flattened dorsally, rugose, 3.5-5.5 mm long and 1.5-1.8 mm in diam. Inflorescence 5-7-flowered; rachis sharply angled, striate, 1.3-2.5 cm long and 1 mm diam., nodes raised and very prominent; floral bracts elliptic to broadly ovate, 14-17 x 10-15 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate; pedicels subterete, rugose, 3-4 mm long and 1.2 mm diam.; bracteoles located ca. midway up pedicel, oblong, 2 x 1 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate. Flowers: calyx 7-10 mm long; hypanthium cylindric or somewhat obconic, rugose, 2-3.5 mm long, apophysate proximal 0.8-1 mm, the apophysis not or only slightly spreading; limb cylindric-campanulate to erecto-patent, 5-7 mm long, irregularly and unequally divided into 5 oblong-triangular lobes 2-5 mm long, seemingly erect after anthesis, marginally bearing ca. 3-5 remotely spaced fimbriae; sinuses acute; corolla cylindric, 17-18 mm long, "rose at base, green at tip," lobes deltoid, obtuse, ca. 2 mm long; stamens ca. 10-11 m long; filaments slightly coherent at base, alternately ca. 2.5 mm and 4.5 mm long; anthers alternately 8.5-9.5 mm and 8-9 mm long; thecae 2.5-3.5 mm long; style ca. 20 mm long, short-exserted at anthesis. Berry not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to Colombia and known only from the type collections, said to have been collected in temperate forest.
Conservation Status: Rare and endangered.
Type: Colombia. Cundinamarca: Cordillera Oriental, Muchindote Valley, E side of Quebrada Negra, 13 km NE of Gachetá, 2800 m, 4 Jul 1944 (fl), M. Grant 9600 (holotype, US-2058984, photo NY neg. 9166; isotypes, NA, US).
Description: Totally glabrous shrub; branches subterete, smooth or minutely striate, bluntly ridged. Leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 5-7 x 1.6-2.6 cm, basally rounded, apically long-acuminate, slightly revolute at very base, nitid; 3(-5)-plinerved from near base, midrib and lateral nerves impressed and conspicuous above, raised beneath but only midrib obvious, reticulate veinlets obscure on both surfaces; petiole subterete or slightly flattened dorsally, rugose, 3.5-5.5 mm long and 1.5-1.8 mm in diam. Inflorescence 5-7-flowered; rachis sharply angled, striate, 1.3-2.5 cm long and 1 mm diam., nodes raised and very prominent; floral bracts elliptic to broadly ovate, 14-17 x 10-15 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate; pedicels subterete, rugose, 3-4 mm long and 1.2 mm diam.; bracteoles located ca. midway up pedicel, oblong, 2 x 1 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate. Flowers: calyx 7-10 mm long; hypanthium cylindric or somewhat obconic, rugose, 2-3.5 mm long, apophysate proximal 0.8-1 mm, the apophysis not or only slightly spreading; limb cylindric-campanulate to erecto-patent, 5-7 mm long, irregularly and unequally divided into 5 oblong-triangular lobes 2-5 mm long, seemingly erect after anthesis, marginally bearing ca. 3-5 remotely spaced fimbriae; sinuses acute; corolla cylindric, 17-18 mm long, "rose at base, green at tip," lobes deltoid, obtuse, ca. 2 mm long; stamens ca. 10-11 m long; filaments slightly coherent at base, alternately ca. 2.5 mm and 4.5 mm long; anthers alternately 8.5-9.5 mm and 8-9 mm long; thecae 2.5-3.5 mm long; style ca. 20 mm long, short-exserted at anthesis. Berry not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to Colombia and known only from the type collections, said to have been collected in temperate forest.
Conservation Status: Rare and endangered.
Type: Colombia. Cundinamarca: Cordillera Oriental, Muchindote Valley, E side of Quebrada Negra, 13 km NE of Gachetá, 2800 m, 4 Jul 1944 (fl), M. Grant 9600 (holotype, US-2058984, photo NY neg. 9166; isotypes, NA, US).
Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):
Cavendishia dendrophila A.C.Sm.: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.
Cavendishia dendrophila A.C.Sm.: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.