Lyonia truncata Urb. var. truncata

  • Family

    Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)

  • Scientific Name

    Lyonia truncata Urb. var. truncata

  • Description

    Description: Evergreen, low to erect, often densely branched shrub to 2.5(-3) m tall, with branches often rigidly ascending; internodes near midpoint of branches of previous year 0.2-1.2 cm long (ave. 0.6-0.7), slightly longer in rapidly growing branches. Leaf blades 0.8-3.5(-4) x 0.4-2(-3) cm, slightly concave to ± flat, sometimes slightly recurved; margin plane with apical portion obscurely and irregularly toothed to clearly toothed or notched; petiole 1-5 mm long. Flowers on pedicels 2.5-10(-13) mm long. Calyx lobes 1-2 x 0.5-0.9, abaxial surface glabrous; corolla ± cylindrical, 4-7 x 2-3.5(-4) mm; filaments 3-4 mm long, anthers 1-1.5 mm long. Capsules ovoid to ellipsoid, (3-)4-6.5(-7) x (2.5-)3-4.5(-5) mm.

    Distribution: Endemic to Hispaniola (Massif de la Selle and Sierra de Baoruco), in Pinus occidentalis forests and thickets, at (400-)900-1700(-1800) m elev. Flowering chiefly late February to June.

    Type: Dominican Republic. Barahona [Pedernales]: nr. dry Arroyo, 400 m, Apr 1912, Fuertes 1528 (holotype, B n.v., destroyed; frag. of holotype, NY; isotypes, F, GH, K, L, NY, P, US, W).

    Illustration: Judd (1995), fig. 12.

  • Floras and Monographs

    Lyonia truncata Urb. var. truncata: [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.