Gaultheria strigosa var. revoluta (A.C.Sm.) Luteyn

  • Family

    Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

  • Scientific Name

    Gaultheria strigosa var. revoluta (A.C.Sm.) Luteyn

  • Primary Citation

    Brittonia 41: 14. 1989

  • Basionym

    Gaultheria revoluta A.C.Sm.

  • Description

    Description: Leaves with upper surface usually pustular, margins tightly revolute, conspicuously incurved or longitudinally curled, (1.1-)1.5-2.4 x 0.4-1(-1.3) cm, base rounded to obtuse or acute, irregularly but compactly crenate, indumentum of lower surface concentrated along major veins. Inflorescence 1-2(-4)-flowered. Calyx densely strigose to sometimes lanate; staminal filaments pilose. Fruiting calyx white.

    Distribution: Common in páramo thickets in Ecuador, less common in Colombia at elevations of 3000-3950 m.

    Type: Colombia. Quindio, Purdie s.n. (holotype, K; isotypes, GH, NY).

  • Floras and Monographs

    Gaultheria strigosa var. revoluta (A.C.Sm.) Luteyn: [Article] Luteyn, James L., et al. 1995. Ericaceae, Part II. The Superior-Ovaried Genera (Monotropoideae, Pyroloideae, Rhododendroideae, and Vaccinioideae P.P.). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 66: 560.