Sphyrospermum tuberculatum Wilbur & Luteyn

Species

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Characteristics

long, with dense bulbous based trichomes at least distally; bract triangular, ap-pressed, ca. 0.6 mm long, bracteoles triangular, alternate, 0.3-0.5 mm long, nearly basal. Flowers with the hypanthium densely tuberculate with bulbous-based, glandular protuberances, ca. 2.5 mm high, 2-2.2 mm in diameter; calyx limb glabrous, erect to slightly spreading, 0.5-0.7 mm long including the lobes, the lobes 5, erect, triangular, glabrous, 0.4-0.5 mm long. Fruit a globose, densely tuberculate white berry; seeds cuneiform with a striate, transparent (when dry) outer layer exhibiting the green embryo within.
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Epiphytic shrub; branches terete, striate, fissured, grayish, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, broadly elliptic, 1.8-5.1 cm long, 1.2-2.8 cm wide, basally rounded to obtusely cuneate, apically rounded, entire, glabrous but inconspicuously glandular strigillose on both surfaces, more so beneath, obscurely 3-plinerved; petioles glabrous, 2-3 mm long. Inflorescence of solitary or paired flowers in the leaf axils; pedicels pendent, arching in both young and older fruit, 6-8 mm
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Distribution

Sphyrospermum tuberculatum world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:242110-2
WFO ID wfo-0001047240
COL ID 4Z2SG
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Synonyms

Sphyrospermum tuberculatum