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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Primary Citation:

Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 28: 440. 1941

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Description:

Description: Epiphytic shrub 0.5-1.0 m high, glabrous throughout except for the filaments; branchlets thick, terete. Leaves coriaceous when dry, oblong lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 26-37 x (3.5-)5.5-9.3 cm, basally cuneate, apically acute to gradually acuminate, entire and narrowly revolute; pinnately nerved, the midvein and the principal veins moderately elevated above, prominently so beneath, the veinlets reticulate and conspicuous; petioles rugose, 8-12 mm long and 3-4 mm in diam. Inflorescences axillary, shortly racemose or corymbose at anthesis, 6-10-flowered with practically no peduncle; rachis 6-10 mm long, angled; pedicels 8-12 mm long and 1-1.5 mm in diam.; floral bract papery, ovate to deltoid, acute, usually minutely toothed, 1.5-3 mm long; bracteoles 2, submedial, often toothed, 1.5-2 mm long. Flowers with the calyx hypanthium broadly campanulate at anthesis, 7-8 mm long and 5-7 mm in diam. at its summit; limb slightly coriaceous, suberect, ca. 3 mm long including the lobes; lobes deltoid, acute 2-2.5 x 2-3 mm; corolla glabrous, somewhat fleshy, truncately conic at anthesis, 6-10 mm long and 5-8 mm in diam. at the base, contracted apically, the lobes, 5, deltoid, acute, 1-1.2 mm long and wide; stamens 10; filaments submembranaceous, distinct, ligulate, 1.5-2 mm long, puberulent ciliolate, apically tapering; connectives either alternately and obscurely 2-spurred and spurless or all spurless; thecae rigid, 3.5-4 mm long, the base conspicuously incurved; tubules cylindric-conical, connate, 1.5-2 mm long, dehiscing introrsely by elongate oval clefts about as long as the tubules; stigma ca. 0.5 mm in diam. when receptive. Mature berry not seen.

Distribution: Endemic to central and eastern Panama; known only from the wet montane forests.

Type: Panama. Coclé: hills N of El Valle de Antón, 1000 m, Allen 2152 (holotype, A)

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Psammisia panamensis A.C.Sm.: [Article] 1941. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 28: 440.