Monographs Details:
Authority:
1897. Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville). 24: 395.
1897. Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville). 24: 395.
Family:
Ericaceae
Ericaceae
Description:
Species Description - Epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs or small trees (1-)2-5(-10?) m tall with glabrous branchlets and branches. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, 3-8(-10) x (1-)2.5-4(-6) cm, acute to acuminate at both ends, glabrous or sparingly to moderately appressed glandular-strigose above and especially beneath, rarely short-puberulent near the base, margins entire, slightly revolute; indistinctly 3-5-plinerved and also somewhat arcuately veined; petioles 1-4 mm long, glabrous to hirsutulous. Inflorescences axillary, racemes umbelliform, mostly 2-4 cm long; rachis glabrous to sparingly puberulent, 0.5-2 cm long; floral bracts persistent, lance-ovate to lanceolate, ciliate, 1.5-2.5 mm long; pedicels slender, sparingly puberulent, 7-15 mm long in flower; bracteoles 2, submedial, subopposite, lance-ovate to lanceolate, often persistent, ciliate, 1-1.5 mm long. Flowers with the calyx 2-3.5 mm high and about equal in diam., glabrous to densely puberulent, articulate with the pedicel and there marked by a clear groove and often with a fringe of glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; hypanthium short-campanulate to turbinate; limb 0.5-0.7 mm tall; lobes 5, broadly and shallowly deltoid with an apiculate tip 0.2-0.5 mm long; corolla broadly cylindric, 8-12 mm long and 6-10 mm in diam., externally and internally glabrous or apically sparsely, villose, pale yellowish or greenish-white and occasionally tinged with bright rose or pink, the lobes 5, broadly oblong, 2-3.5 mm long, apically acute to obtuse, erect to slightly recurved; stamens 10; filaments equal, 2-2.5 mm long, ciliate, flattened, broadened basally where slightly adherent to the very base of the corolla tube; thecae golden, attached slightly above the middle, granular, basally inwardly curved, 1.8-2.2 mm long, lacking horns or spurs; tubules 3.5-5.5 mm long, slender, yellowish, each with a slightly inwardly oblique pore; style greenish, 8-10 mm long. Berry succulent, yellowish but turning dark purple at maturity, subglobose, 7-10 mm in diam.
Distribution and Ecology - Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and W Panama, where it is found from premontane cloud forest to páramo. Cultivated ACAD, E.
Species Description - Epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs or small trees (1-)2-5(-10?) m tall with glabrous branchlets and branches. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, 3-8(-10) x (1-)2.5-4(-6) cm, acute to acuminate at both ends, glabrous or sparingly to moderately appressed glandular-strigose above and especially beneath, rarely short-puberulent near the base, margins entire, slightly revolute; indistinctly 3-5-plinerved and also somewhat arcuately veined; petioles 1-4 mm long, glabrous to hirsutulous. Inflorescences axillary, racemes umbelliform, mostly 2-4 cm long; rachis glabrous to sparingly puberulent, 0.5-2 cm long; floral bracts persistent, lance-ovate to lanceolate, ciliate, 1.5-2.5 mm long; pedicels slender, sparingly puberulent, 7-15 mm long in flower; bracteoles 2, submedial, subopposite, lance-ovate to lanceolate, often persistent, ciliate, 1-1.5 mm long. Flowers with the calyx 2-3.5 mm high and about equal in diam., glabrous to densely puberulent, articulate with the pedicel and there marked by a clear groove and often with a fringe of glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; hypanthium short-campanulate to turbinate; limb 0.5-0.7 mm tall; lobes 5, broadly and shallowly deltoid with an apiculate tip 0.2-0.5 mm long; corolla broadly cylindric, 8-12 mm long and 6-10 mm in diam., externally and internally glabrous or apically sparsely, villose, pale yellowish or greenish-white and occasionally tinged with bright rose or pink, the lobes 5, broadly oblong, 2-3.5 mm long, apically acute to obtuse, erect to slightly recurved; stamens 10; filaments equal, 2-2.5 mm long, ciliate, flattened, broadened basally where slightly adherent to the very base of the corolla tube; thecae golden, attached slightly above the middle, granular, basally inwardly curved, 1.8-2.2 mm long, lacking horns or spurs; tubules 3.5-5.5 mm long, slender, yellowish, each with a slightly inwardly oblique pore; style greenish, 8-10 mm long. Berry succulent, yellowish but turning dark purple at maturity, subglobose, 7-10 mm in diam.
Distribution and Ecology - Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and W Panama, where it is found from premontane cloud forest to páramo. Cultivated ACAD, E.
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