Taxon Details: Heliconia danielsiana W.J.Kress
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Family:
Heliconiaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Heliconiaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Heliconia danielsiana W.J.Kress
Heliconia danielsiana W.J.Kress
Primary Citation:
Systematics of Central American Heliconia (Heliconiaceae) with pendent inflorescences
J. Arnold Arbor. 65(4): 507, f. 13, t. 8A,D. 1984
Systematics of Central American Heliconia (Heliconiaceae) with pendent inflorescences
J. Arnold Arbor. 65(4): 507, f. 13, t. 8A,D. 1984
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Common Names:
platanilla
platanilla
Description:
Author : John Kress, Xavier Cornejo & Reinaldo Aguilar.
Description: Musoid plant, 4.5-8 m tall; pseudostem brown, 1.8-3 m tall, scurfy to villous. Leafy shoots in goups of 5-15; petioles 1-1.8 m long, glabrous; blades to 280 x 60 cm, glabrous on both sides. Peduncles orange to red, 10-40 cm long, whoolly with orange (when fresh) to buff (when dried) hairs. Inflorescences pendulous, distichous to subspiral, to 1 m long, bearing 20-30 spathes per inflorescence, the spathe angle 130-150º; axis flexuous, orange to red, whoolly; spathes orange-red, 9.5-11 x 8-10 cm, with orange (when fresh) to buff (when dried) hairs; floral bracts opaque, persistent, white to pink, 4-5 x 2-2.5 cm long, velutinous to villous with golden hairs abaxially; pedicels white to pink, 9-12 mm long, glabrous to puberulous. Flowers 15 to 20 per spathe; ovary white, 8-10 x 5-6 mm, glabrous; perianth 51-57 mm long, white and glabrous basally, yellow and velutinous with cinnamon to buff hairs apically; free sepal slightly reflexed, the fused sepals with apices slightly reflexed; staminode white with yellow apex, 5-7 x 2-3 mm; stamens with anthers connivent inside perianth apex. Fruits glabrous.
Common names: Müne (Guaymi; Castañeda & Step, 2007), platanilla, (Spanish; Gargiullo, 2008), platanillo (Spanish).
Distribution: Costa Rica and adjacent western Panama from sea level to 1200 m (Kress, 1984).
Ecology: In wet forests. It is found in open, disturbed habitats (Kress, 1984).
Phenology: This species has been observed with flowers throughout the year, with a slight peak in early rainy season, from Jun to Aug (Kress, 1984).
Pollination: The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds (Kress, 2003).
Dispersal: The fruits are eaten by birds and mammals (Gargiullo, 2008).
Taxonomic notes: This species is recognized by the pendulous, whoolly, orange-red inflorescences.
Conservation: Not recorded.
Uses: The shoots of this species are reported to be edible (Castañeda & Step, 2007).
Etymology: The epithet honors Gilbert S. Daniels, a taxonomist who has greatly contributed to the knowledge of Heliconia taxa of Costa Rica (Kress, 1984).
Author : John Kress, Xavier Cornejo & Reinaldo Aguilar.
Description: Musoid plant, 4.5-8 m tall; pseudostem brown, 1.8-3 m tall, scurfy to villous. Leafy shoots in goups of 5-15; petioles 1-1.8 m long, glabrous; blades to 280 x 60 cm, glabrous on both sides. Peduncles orange to red, 10-40 cm long, whoolly with orange (when fresh) to buff (when dried) hairs. Inflorescences pendulous, distichous to subspiral, to 1 m long, bearing 20-30 spathes per inflorescence, the spathe angle 130-150º; axis flexuous, orange to red, whoolly; spathes orange-red, 9.5-11 x 8-10 cm, with orange (when fresh) to buff (when dried) hairs; floral bracts opaque, persistent, white to pink, 4-5 x 2-2.5 cm long, velutinous to villous with golden hairs abaxially; pedicels white to pink, 9-12 mm long, glabrous to puberulous. Flowers 15 to 20 per spathe; ovary white, 8-10 x 5-6 mm, glabrous; perianth 51-57 mm long, white and glabrous basally, yellow and velutinous with cinnamon to buff hairs apically; free sepal slightly reflexed, the fused sepals with apices slightly reflexed; staminode white with yellow apex, 5-7 x 2-3 mm; stamens with anthers connivent inside perianth apex. Fruits glabrous.
Common names: Müne (Guaymi; Castañeda & Step, 2007), platanilla, (Spanish; Gargiullo, 2008), platanillo (Spanish).
Distribution: Costa Rica and adjacent western Panama from sea level to 1200 m (Kress, 1984).
Ecology: In wet forests. It is found in open, disturbed habitats (Kress, 1984).
Phenology: This species has been observed with flowers throughout the year, with a slight peak in early rainy season, from Jun to Aug (Kress, 1984).
Pollination: The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds (Kress, 2003).
Dispersal: The fruits are eaten by birds and mammals (Gargiullo, 2008).
Taxonomic notes: This species is recognized by the pendulous, whoolly, orange-red inflorescences.
Conservation: Not recorded.
Uses: The shoots of this species are reported to be edible (Castañeda & Step, 2007).
Etymology: The epithet honors Gilbert S. Daniels, a taxonomist who has greatly contributed to the knowledge of Heliconia taxa of Costa Rica (Kress, 1984).