Psammisia ramiflora Klotzsch
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Description
Description: Usually epiphytic shrubs with slender, terete, glabrous branchlets. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 8-19(-27) x 3-7(-11) cm, basally cuneate to rounded, apically caudate acuminate, the tip often 2-4 cm long, entire, glabrous both above and below; 5-plinerved with the secondary nerves originating slightly above the base and ascending near the margins, the midvein slightly impressed or flush above and prominently elevated beneath, the veinlets conspicuously reticulate and elevated on both the surfaces but especially so beneath; petioles rugose, (3-)5-12(-17) mm long, glabrous, narrowly winged above. Inflorescence axillary, subfasciculate or short-racemose, 4-15-flowered; rachis less than 1 cm long at anthesis, but in fruit 1-4 cm long, glabrate throughout; pedicels slender, striate, 8-25 mm long; floral bract oblong or triangularly deltoid, persistent, (1-)3-4 mm long; bracteoles 2, usually supramedial, deltate, persistent, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Flowers with the calyx hypanthium subcylindric or broadly obconic, ca. 3 mm long and 2.5 mm in diam. at the summit, glabrous; limb 3.5-4.5 mm long including the lobes; lobes 5, triangular, acute, ca. 1.5 mm long; corolla subcylindric, red with a white tip, 20-35 mm long and 6-10 mm in diam. medially and near the base, but contracted to 4-5 mm in diam. above, the throat often with appressed glandular trichomes 0.1-0.4 mm long, the lobes oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm long; stamens 10 (or in the rare 6-parted flowers, 12) 8-10 mm long; filaments membraneous, brown, 3.5-4.5 mm long, connate for their entire length or sometimes lightly coherent near the base or completely separate and leading into the connectives; connectives narrow, ciliate with trichomes ca. 0.2 mm long, distally and alternately unequally 2-spurred; thecae 3-3.2 mm long; tubules, cylindric-conic, 2-3 mm long, weakly coherent or distinct to the base, dehiscing introrsely by oval clefts about 3/4 as long as the tubules; stigma truncate; style exserted, 32-37 mm long, glabrous. Berry subglobose, 8-10 x 10-13 mm.
Distribution: Known only from Costa Rica and Panama, where it is common in premontane cloud forest
Type: "in locis alpestribus Veraguae Americanae centralis," Warscewicz s.n. (holotype, B?; photo F, GH, NY).
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Floras and Monographs
Psammisia ramiflora Klotzsch: [Article] Klotzsch, Johann F. 1851. Linnaea. 24: 44.
