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<figureCitationid="B2E742CCBCB52AE09F4C92522FB08C51"captionStart="Figure 42"captionStartId="F42"captionText="Figure 42. Image of herbarium specimen of L. gongylodes, Proctor 25432 (LL). Specimen used with permission from the Lundell Herbarium, University of Texas at Austin."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.168.51904.figure42"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/480054"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">Fig. 42</figureCitation>
Herb to shrub, erect, 1.5-3.5 m tall. Indument of pale yellow to light brown, uniseriate, multicellular, usually simple (sometimes dendritic), curling to crisped, eglandular, spreading to appressed trichomes 0.1-0.75 (1) mm long. Stems green when young, sparsely to moderately pubescent, compressed upon drying in a plant press, woody with age; upper sympodial branching points monochasial or dichasial. Leaves simple, the leaves of the upper sympodia usually paired and unequal in size, the larger ones with blades 7-17.5
2-4 cm, the leaf pairs usually similar in shape, the blades ovate to elliptic, membranaceous, sparsely pubescent, especially along the veins, the base cuneate to attenuate, sometimes oblique, the margin entire, usually undulate, the apex acute to acuminate, the petiole 0.5-2.5 cm long, sometimes absent, the larger leaf blades with 5-6 primary veins on each side of the midvein. Flowers solitary or in groups of 2-5, axillary, erect or oriented horizontally; peduncles absent; pedicels 10-15 mm and erect to arching in flower, to 30 mm long and erect to arching in fruit; calyx 2-3 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm in diameter, widely bowl shaped, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, the margin truncate, undulate, very well developed, with 10 very short, reflexed appendages 0.25-0.5 mm long emerging 1-1.5 mm below the calyx rim; fruiting calyx enlarged, widely bowl-shaped, sometimes appearing flat-bottomed, 1.5-3 mm long, 6-9 mm in diameter, the appendages not changing in length; corolla 0.6-1 cm long, rotate to reflexed in orientation, shallowly to deeply stellate in outline, sometimes divided to below the middle, interpetalar tissue present, white adaxially, glabrous, white abaxially, sparsely pubescent with very short trichomes; stamens equal, the filaments ca. 1 mm long, glabrous, the anthers 4-5 mm long, lanceolate, free of one another, pale yellow, glabrous, poricidal at the tips, the pores round, dehiscing distally; pistil with glabrous ovary, the style ca. 7 mm, linear, straight, glabrous, the stigma capitate, decurrent down two sides. Fruit a berry, 7-10 mm long, 7-9 mm in diameter, globose, orange at maturity, glabrous, lacking sclerotic granules. Seeds 20-60 per fruit, 2-2.5 mm
1.5-2 mm, flattened, depressed ovate to oval in outline, with shallow notch on one side, yellow-orange, the surface reticulum with minute serpentine pattern with shallow luminae.
<figureCitationid="6F3BFDCF1330693C1AC864D42A0D79A0"captionStart="Figure 43"captionStartId="F43"captionText="Figure 43. Map of geographic distribution of L. gongylodes based on herbarium specimen data."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.168.51904.figure43"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/480055"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">43</figureCitation>
<paragraphid="1FFD52A0E4DCD84DAE7DCC1524D31BF9"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">Flowering specimens and specimens with mature fruits have been collected in February and from June to August. All flowering specimens of this species have open flowers indicating that the flowers are probably open for most of the day.</paragraph>
is a rarely collected species of Guatemala, represented by only four collections, all made before 1970, and none from protected areas. The EOO is 43.078 km2, and the AOO is 12 km2. Based on the
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differs in having small calyx appendages which make the calyx appear thicker and more bowl-shaped in flower and flat-bottomed in fruit (a feature it shares with
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