Faramea multiflora var. salicifolia (C.Presl) Steyerm.

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1967. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part VII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 17: 1-439.

  • Family

    Rubiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Faramea multiflora var. salicifolia (C.Presl) Steyerm.

  • Description

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    Species Description - At first it might appear that Faramea salieifolia were distinct specifically from the other taxa placed within F. multiflora, but study of a large suite of specimens shows too large a degree of overlapping and transitional characters. As in some of the other varieties of F. multiflora, there is no common peduncle of the inflorescence. There are 4-5 primary peduncles 5-25 mm long, each of these peduncles either simple and unbranched with 3-7 flowers or with short secondary branches 5-6 mm long and up to 8-flowered; the inflorescence is relatively few-flowered (10-25) as a whole; the pedicels of the flowers are 1-5 mm long; the corolla is 9-13 mm long, tube 4-6 mm long, lobes 4.5-7 mm long by 2.2-3 mm broad; the leaf-blades vary from lanceolate-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, abruptly subcaudate or long acuminate with an acute acumen 5-10 mm long, acuminate at the base, 6.5-12.5 cm long by 2-4.2 cm broad with a petiole 6-8 mm long; the lateral nerves are fine and faint, with 9-10 primary ones on each side, but not much differentiated from the more slender secondary nerves between, and only obscurely anastomosing, with the tertiary venation poorly developed and not conspicuous as in some of the other varieties of F. multiflora; the calyx and hypanthium together are 2-2.5 mm long, the calyx-lobes are suborbicular-ovate, abruptly apiculate, 0.5 mm high, 1 mm broad, the apiculate tip acute to subulate at first, later disappearing in age; the fruit, 7-8 mm broad by 5-6 mm high, is capped by an inconspicuous calyx 0.5 mm high.

    Distribution and Ecology - Southern and east-central Brazil (Minas Geraes, Parana, Santa Catarina, Goyaz, Rio Janeiro, Bahia, Sao Paulo states).

  • Discussion

    Faramea salicifolia Presl, Symb. Bot. 24, pl. 70. 1833.

    Type. Ad Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Presl.