Vaccinium floccosum (L.O.Williams) Wilbur & Luteyn

Description

Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub 1-4 m tall with slender, grayish to olive brown, glabrous branchlets. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, (3-)5-9(-11) x (1.5-)3-5(-6.5) cm, apically acute to acuminate, basally cuneate to rounded, glabrous to moderately appressed glandular strigillose above and especially beneath, margins entire, slightly thickened; indistinctly 3-5-plinerved and also somewhat arcuately veined; petioles 2-4(-6) mm long, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, racemes umbelliform, peduncle glabrous to sparingly puberulent, 2-10 mm long; rachis glabrous to sparingly puberulent, 0.5-1 cm long; floral bracts persistent, ovate to lance-ovate or lanceolate, 1-3 mm long, glabrous to sparingly short-ciliate; pedicels glabrous to sparsely puberulous, 1-2(-2.5) cm long; bracteoles 2, to almost medial subopposite, ovate to lance-ovate, 1-1.5 mm long, persistent, glabrous to inconspicuously ciliate. Flowers with the calyx clearly disarticulating from the pedicel by a sharply delineated groove often fringed with glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; hypanthium campanulate, 2-3 mm high and 3-5 mm in diam., glabrous; limb 0.8-1 mm tall; lobes 5, broadly triangular, 2-3.5 mm long, acute, glabrous; corolla broadly cylindric, 0.7-1 cm long and 4-5 mm in diam., externally glabrous to moderately appressed spiculate, internally densely floccose with a tangle of white, villous trichomes, pale greenish often suffused with red, the lobes 5, triangular, 2-2.2 mm long, apically acute, erect to spreading or even reflexed, densely villous floccose within; stamens 10; filaments flattened, slightly adherent to the very base of the corolla tube, slightly ciliate; thecae golden, attached on the lower 1/3, granular, basally inwardly curved, ca. 2.2 mm long, lacking spurs; tubules inconspicuous, stout ca. 1 mm long each with a terminal pore; style elevated upon a 1.2-1.5 mm long, granular, columnar projection from ovary. Berries succulent, dark purplish at maturity, 8-10 mm in diam.

Distribution: Endemic to Panama (Chiriquí Prov.)

Type: Panama. Chiriquí: Boquete Dist., Bajo Chorro, 1830 m, Davidson 104 (holotype, F; isotypes, A, MO, US).

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