Hoffmannia pustulata Dwyer

Species

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Characteristics

Subshrubs to 0.3 m tall, the stems subprostrate and rooting at the nodes, the bark somewhat rough, the lenticels minute. Leaves deciduous, but crowded to-ward the apex of the twiglets, narrowly obovate oblong, 4.5-8 cm long, 1.6-4.5 cm wide, deltoid to obtuse toward the apex, acute at the base, the costa prominent above 'and beneath, the lateral veins 22-25, plane above, prominulous beneath, the intervenal areas conspicuously bullate above, stiffly chartaceous, concolor-ous, ferrugineous villosulose beneath; petioles 0.4-1 cm long, the hairs many, ferrugineous; stipules oblong, ca. 3 mm long, leaf-like. Inflorescences axillary, the peduncles 0.5-5 cm long, slender, ca. 1.2 mm wide, the hairs few, the cymules on reduced branches, the flowers few. Flowers scarcely pedicellate; calycine cup much reduced, the lobes 4, thickly subulate, to 1.5 mm long, the hairs few, to 0.8
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mm long, weak, with 2-3 minute glands between adjacent lobes, these 0.1 mm long, red; corolla pinkish green, the tube much reduced, to 1 mm long, glabrous, the lobes 4, petaloid, oblong, to 2 mm long, obtuse, slightly cucullate and carinate, the raphides abundant; stamens 4, the anthers oblong, ca. 2 mm long, obtuse, the filaments short, ca. 1 mm long; stigmas 2, thickly subulate, ca. 1.2 mm long, the style to 2 mm long, thick, the ovules numerous, the ovarian disc pulvinate, to 0.4 mm long, 1 mm wide. Fruits (immature), oblong rotund, ca. 5 mm in diam., glabrous, the raphides many.
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Distribution

Hoffmannia pustulata world distribution map, present in Costa Rica and Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:123311-2
WFO ID wfo-0000982680
COL ID 6M9SP
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Synonyms

Hoffmannia pustulata