Ossaea laxivenula Wurdack

  • Family

    Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)

  • Scientific Name

    Ossaea laxivenula Wurdack

  • Primary Citation

    Phytologia 26: 407. 1973

  • Type Specimens

    Specimen 1: Isotype -- G. Klug 1816, verif. T. A. Zanoni, 2011

  • Homotypic Synonyms

    Miconia laxivenula (Wurdack) Gamba & Almeda

  • Description

    Description Author and Date: Frank Almeda, based on Almeda, F. (2009). Melastomataceae. In: G. Davidse, M. Sousa-Sânchez, S. Knapp, & F. Chiang (eds.), Flora Mesoamericana: Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): 164-338.

    Type: Holotype: Colombia, Klug 1816 (US!).

    Description: Shrub or small tree 1.5-5(-8) m, the compressed-rounded uppermost branchlets, young vegetative buds, young leaves, inflorescences, and hypanthia sparsely and caducously beset with an amorphous-squamate indument and minute inconspicuous glands. Leaves 9-21(-29) X 3.4-9.5(-14) cm, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 5-plinerved, base acute and decurrent on the petioles, apex acute to short-acuminate, the margin entire to obscurely crenulate, essentially glabrous on both surfaces at maturity. Panicle terminal but commonly deflexed and pendant, multiflorous, 5-11 cm long; flowers 4-merous, sessile or subsessile, the persistent to tardily deciduous, triangular bracteoles 0.5-1 mm long. Hypanthium 1.5 mm long, campanulate, becoming dorso-ventrally compressed in fruit, calyx up to 0.5 mm long, obscurely undulate but not obscured or exceeded by the minute exterior teeth. Petals lance-triangular, 2.5-3.5 X 0.5-1 mm, glabrous. Filaments 1.5-2 mm long; anther thecae 1-1.25 mm long with a dorsally inclined pore; the gland-edged dorso-basal appendage 0.25 mm long. Ovary 4-celled, 3/4 inferior, berry 8-costate.

    Habitat and Distribution: Rain forest, cloud forest. 80-900 m. (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru). COSTA RICA (Herrera 995, CAS); PANAMA (Almeda et al. 6400, CAS).

    Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]

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