Themistoclesia costaricensis Luteyn & Wilbur
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Description
Description: Pendent, epiphytic shrub with branches to 0.5 m long; stems terete, minutely striate, tan to reddish-brown when dry, hispidulous with reddish-brown trichomes 0.6-0.8 mm long, glabrate with age. Leaves distichous, flat or concave, ovate, (1.6-)2-2.5 x (0.8-)1-2 cm, basally rounded or subcordate, apically acute or short acuminate, entire, hispidulous above especially near the margins, glabrous beneath, brown above and olive-green or light brown beneath when dry; obscurely 5-plinerved, the midrib slightly impressed proximally, raised distally above, slightly impressed but inconspicuous beneath, the lateral nerves and the veinlets slightly raised but inconspicuous above, totally obscure beneath; petiole subterete, densely puberulous to pilosulose, 1-1.5 mm long. Inflorescence of axillary, solitary flowers with 4 minute basal inflorescence bracts; floral bracts ovate, ciliate, ca. 1.5 mm long; pedicel terete, glabrous, 1-2 mm long, completely concealed by the bracteoles; bracteoles 2, ovate to hemispheric, distally hispidulous. Flowers with the calyx glaucous, copiously pilosulose with translucent or reddish tinged trichomes 1-1.2 mm long; hypanthium obconic, bluntly 5-angled, ca. 3 mm long; limb 1-1.5 mm long including apiculate lobes; corolla cylindric, narrowed at the throat, 5-6 mm long and ca. 2.2 mm in diam. near the base, pilosulose throughout, white, the lobes ca. 1 mm long; stamens 10, ca. 5 mm long; filaments alternately 2.8-3 mm and 3-3.2 mm long, pilosulose over the entire length; anthers ca. 2.5 mm long; tubules slightly longer than the thecae; theca with a minute, 0.1 mm long, finger-like appendage protruding from the base; style 5-6 mm long, glabrous. Berry not seen.
Distribution: Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. Rare.
Type: Costa Rica. Cartago: Along the Río Grande de Orosi, Luteyn et al. 4407 [holotype, DUKE; isotypes, F, MO, NY(2x)].
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