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Family:

Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

Primary Citation:

Linnaea 24: 64. 1851

Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.

Type Specimens:

Specimen 1: Type fragment -- J. D. Smith

Description:

Description: Shrubs or small trees (0.5-)1-3(-4) m tall, often compact and densely bushy with stiff, rigid, glabrous to densely puberulent branchlets. Leaves persistent, mostly narrowly to broadly elliptic, occasionally oblong, (1.0-)1.5-3(-4.6) x 0.5-1.2(-1.8) cm, usually 2-3 times as long as wide, usually tapering to an acute apex and base, margins thickened, shallowly serrulate with teeth mostly (1-)2-4 mm apart, each tooth often tipped with a darkish glandular callosity, glabrous or with scattered glandular trichomes beneath and moderately puberulous along the midvein; pinnately veined; petioles 1.5-3 mm long, glabrous or puberulent. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, mostly 1-4 cm long; rachis sharply angled, puberulent; floral bracts scarious, slightly puberulent or ciliate, ovate to oblong, 2-3 mm long; pedicels puberulent, 1-2 mm long; bracteoles subopposite, ovate to oblong, scarious, ciliate but otherwise glabrous, entire to sparingly irregularly and minutely toothed, 1.5-3 mm long. Flowers with the calyx sharply articulated with the pedicel; hypanthium campanulate, glabrous, 1-1.6 mm long; limb 0.5-0.7 mm long; lobes 4, deltoid to broadly ovate, apically ciliate but otherwise glabrous, 0.8-1.5 mm long; corolla cylindric, 5-7.5 mm long and 3-4 mm diam., glabrous, creamy white with tinges of red or pink, the lobes 4, oblong, 1-1.7 mm long; stamens 8; filaments 3-4 mm long, ciliate; anthers granular papillate; thecae 1.5-1.8 mm long, each with a tubule and 2 spurs, the spurs slender, hornlike, ascendent, originating from near the apex of the thecae, 0.2-0.6 mm long; tubules 1.2-1.8 mm long, dehiscing by an introrse cleft 0.5-0.7 mm long. Berry reddish to blackish purple at maturity, globose, 5-6 mm in diam.

Distribution: Costa Rica and W Panama.

Type: Panama. Chiriquí: Volcán Chiriquí, Warscewicz s.n. (holotype, B?, photo seen, MO).

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Vaccinium consanguineum Klotzsch: [Article] 1851. Linnaea. 24: 64.