Remijia pacimonica Standl.

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1972. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part IX. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 23: 1-832.

  • Family

    Rubiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Remijia pacimonica Standl.

  • Description

    Distribution and Ecology - Distribution. VENEZUELA. Amazonas: Yavita-Pimichin-Maroa, Jul 1969, Bunting et al 3734; SW-facing slopes of Cerro Yapacana, alt 400 m, 3 May 1970, Steyermark & Bunting 103036; cerca del morichal en el bosque inundable, Sabanas de Santa Barbara, Río Orinoco, 30 Apr 1968, Medina 488', Guarinuma, 4 km al norte de San Carlos de Rio Negro, alt 200 m, 23 Jan 1968, Ruiz-Terán 5086. COLOMBIA. Vaupés: Río Negro, San Felipe (El Castillo), below confluence of rios Guainía and Casiquiare, 12 Dec 1947, small tree, flowers greenish-yellow, Schultes & Lopez 9341. BRAZIL. Amazonas: in forest between Missão Salesiana and Serra Pirapucú, on Rio Maturacá (Rio Negro, Rio Cauaburí), alt 50 m, 15 Jan 1966, tree 10 m high, 10 cm diam, calyx and corolla green; style and stamens white, Silva & Brazão 60839.

  • Discussion

    Type. In silvis secus originem fluminis Pacimoni, Amazonas, Venezuela, Feb 1854, R. Spruce s n (holotype K).

    Standley describes the tomentum of the rachis and lateral axes of the inflorescence as “densissime adpresso-pilosula” which shows on the type specimen as a shorter, finer, more appressed pubescence, but on the Silva & Brazão 60839 specimen the tomentum on this portion of the inflorescence is densely hirtellous-tomentose with spreading rather than appressed pubescence.

    In the original description the corolla is described from immature material, but is shown to reach a length of 35 mm in full anthesis in other specimens examined.

  • Distribution

    Distribution. VENEZUELA. Amazonas: Yavita-Pimichin-Maroa, Jul 1969, Bunting et al 3734; SW-facing slopes of Cerro Yapacana, alt 400 m, 3 May 1970, Steyermark & Bunting 103036; cerca del morichal en el bosque inundable, Sabanas de Santa Barbara, Río Orinoco, 30 Apr 1968, Medina 488', Guarinuma, 4 km al norte de San Carlos de Rio Negro, alt 200 m, 23 Jan 1968, Ruiz-Terán 5086. COLOMBIA. Vaupés: Río Negro, San Felipe (El Castillo), below confluence of rios Guainía and Casiquiare, 12 Dec 1947,

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