Taxon Details: Ossaea spicata Gleason
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Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Ossaea spicata Gleason
Ossaea spicata Gleason
Primary Citation:
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 68: 253. 1941
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 68: 253. 1941
Description:
Description Author and Date: Frank Almeda, based on Almeda, F. (2009). Melastomataceae. In: G. Davidse, M. Sousa-Sânchez, S. Knapp, & F. Chiang (eds.), Flora Mesoamericana: Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): 164-338.
Type: Holotype: Colombia, Killip 35166 (NY!).
Description: Shrub or tree 2-8.5 m tall, the young branchlets, petioles, primary leaf veins abaxially, inflorescences, and hypanthia sparsely to moderately covered with white subulate hairs often intermixed with or sometimes replaced by white furfuraceous hairs. Leaves 14-22.5(-28.4) X 4-6.5(-8.5) cm, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 5-nerved, base acute, apex acuminate, the margin repand-denticulate to subentire, glabrous adaxially and on the actual surface abaxially. Inflorescence a pendant interrupted subverticillate spike 9-14.5 cm long; flowers 5-merous and sessile, the deciduous bracteoles ovate to oblong or triangular, 2-4 mm long. Calyx lobes hyaline, ovate to triangular, 0.5-1 mm long from the torus, the inconspicuous exterior teeth (at anthesis) bluntly triangular, ca 0.25 mm long. Petals lanceolate, 3-4 X 1-1.5 mm, stellulate-furfuraceous abaxially. Filaments 2-2.5 mm long; anther thecae clavate, 1.5-1.75 mm long with a dorsally inclined pore; connective prolonged into a dorso-basal glandular tooth ca 0.25 mm long. Ovary 5-celled, completely inferior; berry 10-costate but the costae concealed by the persistent pubescence.
Habitat and Distribution: Rain forest, low cloud forest. 0-400(1,000) m. (Colombia.) NICARAGUA (Riviere 272, MO); PANAMA (Almeda et al. 6496, CAS).
Taxonomy and Systematics: In the protologue, Gleason described the ovary of this species as 3-celled based on Colombian material. All Central American specimens examined have 5-celled ovaries.
Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]
Description Author and Date: Frank Almeda, based on Almeda, F. (2009). Melastomataceae. In: G. Davidse, M. Sousa-Sânchez, S. Knapp, & F. Chiang (eds.), Flora Mesoamericana: Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): 164-338.
Type: Holotype: Colombia, Killip 35166 (NY!).
Description: Shrub or tree 2-8.5 m tall, the young branchlets, petioles, primary leaf veins abaxially, inflorescences, and hypanthia sparsely to moderately covered with white subulate hairs often intermixed with or sometimes replaced by white furfuraceous hairs. Leaves 14-22.5(-28.4) X 4-6.5(-8.5) cm, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 5-nerved, base acute, apex acuminate, the margin repand-denticulate to subentire, glabrous adaxially and on the actual surface abaxially. Inflorescence a pendant interrupted subverticillate spike 9-14.5 cm long; flowers 5-merous and sessile, the deciduous bracteoles ovate to oblong or triangular, 2-4 mm long. Calyx lobes hyaline, ovate to triangular, 0.5-1 mm long from the torus, the inconspicuous exterior teeth (at anthesis) bluntly triangular, ca 0.25 mm long. Petals lanceolate, 3-4 X 1-1.5 mm, stellulate-furfuraceous abaxially. Filaments 2-2.5 mm long; anther thecae clavate, 1.5-1.75 mm long with a dorsally inclined pore; connective prolonged into a dorso-basal glandular tooth ca 0.25 mm long. Ovary 5-celled, completely inferior; berry 10-costate but the costae concealed by the persistent pubescence.
Habitat and Distribution: Rain forest, low cloud forest. 0-400(1,000) m. (Colombia.) NICARAGUA (Riviere 272, MO); PANAMA (Almeda et al. 6496, CAS).
Taxonomy and Systematics: In the protologue, Gleason described the ovary of this species as 3-celled based on Colombian material. All Central American specimens examined have 5-celled ovaries.
Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]