Psammisia amazonica Luteyn

  • Filed As

    Ericaceae
    Psammisia amazonica Luteyn

  • Collector(s)

    G. C. G. Argent 39

  • Location

    Ecuador. Morona Santiago. Los Tayos camp, Rio Coangos.

  • Habitat

    lowland rainforest.

  • 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.

  • Notes (shown on label)

    Collected as a seedling epiphyte on fallen branch from the canopy in lowland valley rain forest.

  • Specimen Notes

    collected as seedling and E acession 19762365, this sheet collected Oct 1994; first record in Ecuador

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 02436776

    Occurrence ID: 2cbca107-9370-41f5-8af4-91edbf5c00e4

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Ericales

  • Family

    Ericaceae

  • All Determinations

    Psammisia amazonica Luteyn det J. L. Luteyn

  • Region

    South America

  • Country

    Ecuador

  • State/Province

    Morona Santiago

  • Locality

    Los Tayos camp, Rio Coangos

  • Elevation

    Alt. 700 m. (2297 ft.)

  • Coordinates

    -3.12, -78.23

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