Rapatea longipes var. modesta Maguire

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1965. The Botany of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 1-285.

  • Family

    Rapateaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Rapatea longipes var. modesta Maguire

  • Type

    Type. In sandy savanna, bracts and flowers white, interior regions of Trapecio between Amazon and Putumayo watersheds, alt. about 100 m, Amazonas, Colombia, Nov 1945, R. E. Schultes 6900 (holotype N Y ).

  • Description

    Distribution and Ecology - Distribution. COLOMBIA. Amazonas: Trapecio between Amazon and Putumayo watersheds, Oct 1945, Schultes 6899 (COL) ; without definite locality, Schidtes d Black 46-361 (NY).

  • Discussion

    Bapatea modesta Maguire, Bot. Mus. Leafll. Harvard Univ. 14: 112. 1950. Intermediate to var. longipes is: Rio Piraparana, Rio Apaporis, Vaupes, Colombia, Schultes d Cabrera 17500. From the few specimens collected, the var. modesta seems to occupy the Putumayo watershed and thus is geographically distinct from the var. longipes which occupies the more northern and eastern Vaupes and Rio Negro-Guainia watersheds.

  • Distribution

    Distribution. COLOMBIA. Amazonas: Trapecio between Amazon and Putumayo watersheds, Oct 1945, Schultes 6899 (COL) ; without definite locality, Schidtes d Black 46-361 (NY).

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