Cavendishia pubescens (Kunth) Hemsl.
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Family
Ericaceae (Magnoliophyta)
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Scientific Name
Cavendishia pubescens (Kunth) Hemsl.
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Primary Citation
Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 2: 273. 1881
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Basionym
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Common Names
cacaíto, camerón, camerona, manzanito, quemadera, uva de monte, uvito de borrancos, uvito de monte, uvito noble, manzana, uva, cacagüito, quereme, uvito
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Description
Description: Epiphytic or terrestrial shrub to small tree 1-5(-8) m tall; stem moderately short-pilose to glabrate; twigs densely short-pilose with whitish or grayish hairs ca. 0.5 mm long. Leaves elliptic, oblong-elliptic, lanceolate or ovate, (5.5-)14-20(-30) x (1.5-)3.5-9(-12.5) cm, base cuneate, obtuse, rounded, cordate, or truncate, apex short- to long-acuminate, rarely abruptly so with a blunt or sharply acute tip, usually densely puberulent to short-pilose on both surfaces with soft, white hairs, persistent beneath but often glabrate above; 5-7-plinerved, midrib impressed above and prominently raised beneath, lateral nerves impressed above but plane distally, raised and prominent beneath, reticulate veinlets plane to slightly raised or conspicuously impressed above and obscure to prominent beneath; petiole often dorsally flattened, (5-)7-15 mm long, densely short-pilose or puberulent. Inflorescence 7-11(-19)-flowered, surrounded at base by densely matted or appressed short-pilose bracts; rachis 1-2.5(-4.5) cm long, persistently densely short, white pilose, sometimes with glandular fimbriae; floral bract elliptic to oblanceolate, 17-30 x 7-13(-17) mm, base narrowed, apex rounded or rarely emarginate, pale pinkish-green or whitish-green through dark pink to red, often with small, red, clavate glands abaxially, glabrous or only ciliate, to sparsely or densely short, white and usually appressed pilose both abaxially and marginally, sometimes marginally fimbriate; pedicel 4-14 mm long, densely short-pilose, often fimbriate; bracteoles oblong, linear or subulate, 2-4.5(-5) x ca. 1 mm, densely pubescent or only marginally ciliate, marginally glandular-fimbriate, these rarely fusing distally. Flowers with calyx pubescent with densely matted, white or tan trichomes, glandular-fimbriate, (4.5-)5.5-8(-11) mm long; hypanthium cylindric, usually shorter than limb, (2-)2.5-4(-5) mm long, nonapophysate; limb campanulate or spreading, (2.5-)3-5(-6) mm long; lobes oblong, oblong-triangular, broadly triangular or deltate, obtuse, or broadly rounded, sometimes then apiculate, (1-)1.5-4 x 1.5-3 mm, separate or slightly imbricate near base at anthesis (in Ecuador), connivent or curling after anthesis, rarely reflexed, marginally glandular-fimbriate these rarely fusing distally; sinuses obtuse; corolla cylindric or bottle-shaped, slightly constricted basally, narrowed to throat, (12-)15-20(-22) mm long, white or tinted pink, with age becoming red, moderately to densely short-pilose with white or tawny trichomes, the lobes deltate, ca. 1-2 mm long, wide-spreading at anthesis; stamen 10-15.5 mm long; filaments alternately (1.8-)2.5-4 mm and 3.5-6 mm long; anthers alternately 9.5-13 mm and 8-11 mm long; thecae 2.5-4 mm long; style glabrous or rarely pilose distally, 13.5-17(-23) mm long. Berry densely puberulent, 8-14 mm in diam.
Distribution: Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia; relatively dry sites on slopes and in thickets to cloud forest at (700-)850-1800(-3000) m altitude.
Cultivated: E.
Type: Colombia. Tolima: Boca del Monte, 1260-2340 m, Jul (fl), Humboldt & Bonpland s.n. (holotype: P-Humb. & Bonpl., photo F neg. 38230; isotype: P).
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Floras and Monographs
Cavendishia pubescens (Kunth) Hemsl.: [Article] Maguire, Bassett. 1978. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part X. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 29: 1-288.
Cavendishia pubescens (Kunth) Hemsl.: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1983. Ericaceae--part I. Cavendishia. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 35: 1-290.
Cavendishia pubescens (Kunth) Hemsl.: [Article] Luteyn, James L. 1976. A revision of the Mexican Central American species of Cavendishia (Vacciniaceae). Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 28 (3): 1-138.
