Psammisia amazonica Luteyn
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Filed As
Ericaceae
Psammisia amazonica Luteyn -
Collector(s)
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Location
Ecuador. Morona Santiago. Los Tayos camp, Rio Coangos.
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Habitat
lowland rainforest.
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Description
In cultivation an erect shrub to c. 1 m. high from a fist sized basal woody tuber. Branches spreading, twigs yellowish-green, appearing glabrous but minutely hairy. Leaves with scattered sunken glands on the underside which secrete ? sugar when young, smelling of wintergreen when crushed. Calyx orange with yellow lobes with a single extrafloral nectary at the back of each lobe. Corolla orange, shiny, with dark purplish-black half inwardly directed lobes. Fruit to c. 15 mm diameter, blue, hemispherical with the accrescent calyx lobes fleshy and spreading, flesh white, mucilaginous. Apparently not developing seeds in cultivation. Phenology of specimen: Flower.
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Notes (shown on label)
Collected as a seedling epiphyte on fallen branch from the canopy in lowland valley rain forest.
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Specimen Notes
collected as seedling and E acession 19762365, this sheet collected Oct 1994; first record in Ecuador
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Identifiers
NY Barcode: 02436776
Occurrence ID: 2cbca107-9370-41f5-8af4-91edbf5c00e4
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Feedback
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Kingdom
Plantae
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Division
Magnoliophyta
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Order
Ericales
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Family
Ericaceae
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All Determinations
Psammisia amazonica Luteyn det J. L. Luteyn
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Region
South America
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Country
Ecuador
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State/Province
Morona Santiago
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Locality
Los Tayos camp, Rio Coangos
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Elevation
Alt. 700 m. (2297 ft.)
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Coordinates
-3.12, -78.23
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Distribution
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Psammisia amazonica Luteyn