Psammisia hookeriana Klotzsch

Filed As

Ericaceae
Psammisia hookeriana Klotzsch

Collector(s)

J. L. Luteyn 15266 with Alfonso Cardozo López, 15 Nov 1997

Location

Venezuela. Aragua. Parque Nacional Henri Pittier, Maracay-Choroní road, high point in road at Altos de Choroní.

Habitat

Mature secondary montane cloud forest.

Description

Terrestrial, more or less scandent lianoid shrub to 2.5 m long. Leaves thick coriaceous. Pedicels and calyx red. Corolla with basal swollen part pentagonal, orangish-red; distal constricted part terete, white. Style long-exserted. Immature berry erect, green. Hummingbird visited. [Pickled; wood; DNA].

Identifiers

NY Barcode: 189637

Occurrence ID: 13141e18-85bb-486c-bb27-389391d5b9cc

Laboratory Collections

Structural Botany, 02165225, J. L. Luteyn 15266, Psammisia hookeriana Klotzsch - Accepted : Ericaceae (261.0) : : : Magnoliophyta;

Related Objects

Pending, J. L. Luteyn 15266, Psammisia hookeriana, Ericaceae (261.0), Magnoliophyta; South America, Venezuela, Aragua

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