Taxon Details: Ossaea asplundii Wurdack
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Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Ossaea asplundii Wurdack
Ossaea asplundii Wurdack
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: Ecuador, Asplund 18577 (S).
Description: Shrub 0.5-2.5 m, the terete branchlets, petioles, primary and secondary leaf veins abaxially, inflorescences, and hypanthia copiously granulose-furfuraceous. Leaves 3.6-9.7 X 1.6-4.4 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, 5-plinerved, base bluntly acute to rounded, apex gradually acuminate to caudate-acuminate, the margin entire, sparsely furfuraceous to glabrous adaxially at maturity, moderately to densely granulose-furfuraceous abaxially on primary and higher order veins but essentially glabrous on actual surface. Inflorescences paired, few-flowered cymes 1-2 cm long (at anthesis) in upper leaf axils and at upper defoliated nodes; flowers 4-merous on pedicels 0.25-1 mm long, the deciduous linear-oblong bracteoles 0.75-1 mm long. Hypanthium 1.5 mm long; calyx lobes broadly triangular, 0.75-1 X 0.5 mm, concealed by the exterior teeth projecting 1 mm. Petals narrowly lanceolate, 2-2.5 X 0.75 mm, glabrous. Filaments 1.25-1.5 mm long; anther thecae 1.5 mm long with a dorsally inclined pore; the gland-edged dorso-basal appendage 0.5 mm long. Ovary 4-celled, 2/3 inferior, berry 8-costate.
Habitat and Distribution: Cloud forest understory. 730-1500 m. (Ecuador.) COSTA RICA (Sánchez & Chacón 104, CAS); PANAMA (Churchill 5786, CAS).
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: Ecuador, Asplund 18577 (S).
Description: Shrub 0.5-2.5 m, the terete branchlets, petioles, primary and secondary leaf veins abaxially, inflorescences, and hypanthia copiously granulose-furfuraceous. Leaves 3.6-9.7 X 1.6-4.4 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, 5-plinerved, base bluntly acute to rounded, apex gradually acuminate to caudate-acuminate, the margin entire, sparsely furfuraceous to glabrous adaxially at maturity, moderately to densely granulose-furfuraceous abaxially on primary and higher order veins but essentially glabrous on actual surface. Inflorescences paired, few-flowered cymes 1-2 cm long (at anthesis) in upper leaf axils and at upper defoliated nodes; flowers 4-merous on pedicels 0.25-1 mm long, the deciduous linear-oblong bracteoles 0.75-1 mm long. Hypanthium 1.5 mm long; calyx lobes broadly triangular, 0.75-1 X 0.5 mm, concealed by the exterior teeth projecting 1 mm. Petals narrowly lanceolate, 2-2.5 X 0.75 mm, glabrous. Filaments 1.25-1.5 mm long; anther thecae 1.5 mm long with a dorsally inclined pore; the gland-edged dorso-basal appendage 0.5 mm long. Ovary 4-celled, 2/3 inferior, berry 8-costate.
Habitat and Distribution: Cloud forest understory. 730-1500 m. (Ecuador.) COSTA RICA (Sánchez & Chacón 104, CAS); PANAMA (Churchill 5786, CAS).
Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]