Macleania salapa (Benth.) Hook.f. ex Hoerold

• Region

  South America

• Country

  Ecuador

• State/Province

  Loja

• Locality

  Track from Universidad Nacional de Loja to Uritusinga, km 9.

• Elevation

  Alt. 2770 m. (9088 ft.)

• Coordinates

  -4, -79.2

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Macleania salopa (Benth.) Hook.f. ex Hoerold
det. James L. Luteyn, 2005
The New York Botanical Garden (NY)
FLORA OF ECUADOR
G. P. Lewis
2690
Macleania salapa (Benth.) Benth.	Ericaceae
& Hook.
det.J.Luteyn(NY), April 1997
Province: Loja
Track from Universidad Nacional de Loja to Uritusinga, km 9.
2770 *m 79° 12'W; 4°00'S	18 October 1996
Vegetation: elfin ericaceous scrub forest.
Shrub to 1 m; leaves coriaceous, discolorous, mid-green above, much
paler below; calyces green with a blood-red-purplish tinge, corollas
fleshy, dark pink, their lobes reflexed, protruding styles blood-red.
Locally common.
Field work funded by Carlsberg Foundation & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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