Taxon Details: Lateropora santafeensis Wilbur & Luteyn
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Family:
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Lateropora santafeensis Wilbur & Luteyn
Lateropora santafeensis Wilbur & Luteyn
Primary Citation:
Brittonia 29: 261. 1977
Brittonia 29: 261. 1977
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Description: Epiphytic shrub 0.5 m tall with stout, glabrous, purplish branchlets and grayish branches. Leaf blades coriaceous, elliptic, 3-8.5 x 2-4.5 cm, acutely tapering to both the apex and the base, the margin entire, thickened, slightly revolute, glabrate or with appressed, reddish-brown, apparently glandular, strigillose trichomes 0.2-0.3 mm long especially on the lower surfaces; pinnately veined; petioles glabrous, 3-5 mm long and 2-3.5 mm in diam. Inflorescences axillary, compact, of umbelliform racemes 2-3 cm long; peduncle and rachis 8-12 mm long; floral bracts scalelike, ciliate, ovate to suborbicular, somewhat keeled, 2-2.2 mm long and about as wide; pedicels stiff, somewhat clavate, glabrous, 5-13 mm long, medially ca. 1 mm in diam.; bracteoles 2, subopposite, broadly ovate or suborbicular, ciliate, keeled, appressed, 2-2.5 x 1.8-2.2 mm, borne on the lower 1/4 of the pedicel. Flowers with the calyx glabrous, 3-4 x 4-5 mm, disarticulating from the pedicel by a marked groove often inconspicuously fringed by glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; hypanthium campanulate; limb glabrous, 0.5-0.7 mm high; lobes 5, erect, triangular, acute, 1.5-2 x 2-2.2 mm, short-ciliate; corolla pale greenish, broadly culindric to urceolate, 4-5 mm long, medially 5-6 mm in diam., sparingly and inconspicuously strigillose with trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long, the lobes 5, spreading to weakly reflexed, triangular, acute, 1.5-1.8 x 2 mm, inside densely tangled villous with white trichomes 0.6-1.0 mm long; stamens 10; filaments flattened, 2.5-3 mm long, broadened basally to ca. 1 mm wide, densely pilose distally; anthers attached near the middle just above the basal bend in the thecae, ca. 3 mm long, dehiscing by means of a longitudinal slit from the apex to the basal curve; thecae conspicuously granular, with a strongly incurved base ca. 1 mm long; tubules vestigial, ca. 0.3 mm long. Fruit not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to Panama and known only from three collections.
Type: Panama. Veraguas: road beyond Escuela Agrícola Alto Piedra, above Santa Fé, 800-1000 m, 1 Jan 1975 (fl), Luteyn & Wilbur 4575 (holotype, DUKE, photo of holotype, NY).
Description: Epiphytic shrub 0.5 m tall with stout, glabrous, purplish branchlets and grayish branches. Leaf blades coriaceous, elliptic, 3-8.5 x 2-4.5 cm, acutely tapering to both the apex and the base, the margin entire, thickened, slightly revolute, glabrate or with appressed, reddish-brown, apparently glandular, strigillose trichomes 0.2-0.3 mm long especially on the lower surfaces; pinnately veined; petioles glabrous, 3-5 mm long and 2-3.5 mm in diam. Inflorescences axillary, compact, of umbelliform racemes 2-3 cm long; peduncle and rachis 8-12 mm long; floral bracts scalelike, ciliate, ovate to suborbicular, somewhat keeled, 2-2.2 mm long and about as wide; pedicels stiff, somewhat clavate, glabrous, 5-13 mm long, medially ca. 1 mm in diam.; bracteoles 2, subopposite, broadly ovate or suborbicular, ciliate, keeled, appressed, 2-2.5 x 1.8-2.2 mm, borne on the lower 1/4 of the pedicel. Flowers with the calyx glabrous, 3-4 x 4-5 mm, disarticulating from the pedicel by a marked groove often inconspicuously fringed by glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; hypanthium campanulate; limb glabrous, 0.5-0.7 mm high; lobes 5, erect, triangular, acute, 1.5-2 x 2-2.2 mm, short-ciliate; corolla pale greenish, broadly culindric to urceolate, 4-5 mm long, medially 5-6 mm in diam., sparingly and inconspicuously strigillose with trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long, the lobes 5, spreading to weakly reflexed, triangular, acute, 1.5-1.8 x 2 mm, inside densely tangled villous with white trichomes 0.6-1.0 mm long; stamens 10; filaments flattened, 2.5-3 mm long, broadened basally to ca. 1 mm wide, densely pilose distally; anthers attached near the middle just above the basal bend in the thecae, ca. 3 mm long, dehiscing by means of a longitudinal slit from the apex to the basal curve; thecae conspicuously granular, with a strongly incurved base ca. 1 mm long; tubules vestigial, ca. 0.3 mm long. Fruit not seen.
Distribution: Endemic to Panama and known only from three collections.
Type: Panama. Veraguas: road beyond Escuela Agrícola Alto Piedra, above Santa Fé, 800-1000 m, 1 Jan 1975 (fl), Luteyn & Wilbur 4575 (holotype, DUKE, photo of holotype, NY).