Monnina uaipanensis Wurdack

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett & Wurdack, John J. 1957. Botany of the Phelps' Venezuelan Guayana Expeditions - II Uaipan-Tepui, Estado Bolivar. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 9 (3): 477-.

  • Family

    Polygalaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Monnina uaipanensis Wurdack

  • Description

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    Latin Diagnosis - Frutex; ramis juvenilibus sparse patenti-hirsutulis glabrescentibus; foliis coriaceis ovalibus vel subobovatis, 4-6 cm longis 2-3 cm latis, apice rotundato vel subacuto base cuneata vel rotundato-cuneata margine anguste revoluta, juvenilibus strigulosis glabrescentibus (per venulis exceptis); raceni pauci 2-3-aggregati bracteis inconspicuis (ad 1.4 mm longis) caducis; floribus 4.5-5.0 mm longis, pedicello 1.0-1.2 mm longo puberulo; sepalis exterioribus dorso puberulis duobus inferioribus 1.3-1.5 mm longis ovatis 1/3-1/2 connatis 1-3-nerviis, sepalo superiore 2.0-2.1 mm longo 1.5-1.6 ir.m lato 5-nervio, alis 4.5-4.8 mm longis 3.7-3.8 mm latis obovato-suborbicularibus 7-nerviis glabris marginibus subtus ciliolatis; carina 4.7-4.8 mm longa 3.0-3.2 mm lata extus sparse puberula; petalis lateralibus marginibus lateralibus ciliatis extus puberulis intus marginibus lateralibus puberulis marginibus apicalibus glabris; staminibus 8, filamentis glabris vaginae margine ciliata extus costa media puberula aliter glabra; ovario ca. 2.0 mm longo, glabro; stylo 2.8-3.0 mm longo, statim sed non subito geniculato glabro, base 0.5 mm apice 0.7 mm lato; stigmate apice superiore tuberculato apice inferiore acuto; drupis ovalibus, 6 mm longis 4 mm latis glabris reticulatis exalatis.

  • Discussion

    (Fig. 120.)

    TYPE: bush, rare, small purple flowers, grows straight up in single stalk above nearby bushes, about 4 m high, cumbre 1900 m alt., Uaipan, Bol/var, Venezuela, February 1-15, 1948, 368 (NY). Paratype: Uaipan, 1600 m alt., Cardona 2006.

    Related to M. cacumina N. E. Brown and M. duidae Blake, but distinguishable from the former by smaller flowers and oval leaves, from the latter by larger leaves, and from both by the style which is immediately but not abruptly geniculate above the ovary. In both related species, the basal part of the style is erect to semi-erect for a distance of 0.6-1.2 mm above the ovary.