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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.49.8383" ID-PMC="PMC4432232" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2003-49-33" ID-Pensoft-UUID="5D3B5F37691CEB6EEB4BFFC1FFADD024" ID-PubMed="25987884" ID-Zenodo-Dep="576299" ModsDocID="1314-2003-49-33" checkinTime="1451251539483" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Pedraza-Penalosa, Paola" docDate="2015" docId="85B17C7D47FC8906B242CA871EFA850A" docLanguage="en" docName="PhytoKeys 49: 33-58" docOrigin="PhytoKeys 49" docPubDate="2015-04-22" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.49.8383" docTitle="Psammisia pseudoverticillata Pedraza 2015, sp. nov." docType="treatment" docVersion="6" id="5D3B5F37691CEB6EEB4BFFC1FFADD024" lastPageNumber="39" masterDocId="5D3B5F37691CEB6EEB4BFFC1FFADD024" masterDocTitle="New blueberry and mortino relatives (Ericaceae) from northwestern Colombia" masterLastPageNumber="58" masterPageNumber="33" pageNumber="37" updateTime="1668141352410" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>New blueberry and mortino relatives (Ericaceae) from northwestern Colombia</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Pedraza-Penalosa, Paola</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Institute of Systematic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY 10458</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:date>2015</mods:date>
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<mods:number>2015-04-22</mods:number>
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<mods:number>49</mods:number>
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<mods:identifier type="Zenodo-Dep">576299</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152025695" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:85B17C7D47FC8906B242CA871EFA850A" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/85B17C7D47FC8906B242CA871EFA850A" lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="39" pageId="4" pageNumber="37">
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="37">
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<taxonomicName LSID="85B17C7D-47FC-8906-B242-CA871EFA850A" authority="Pedraza" authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="4" pageNumber="37" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata" status="sp. nov.">Psammisia pseudoverticillata Pedraza</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="4" pageNumber="37">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Illustration of Psammisia pseudoverticillata. A Branch with clustered leaves and inflorescence B Floral bud and mature flower C Flower with the corolla removed to show the stamens arranged around the style; details of the calyx lobes (above) and bracteoles (below) D Stamens in lateral, abaxial, adaxial and views. [Drawn from the holotype.]" pageId="4" pageNumber="37">Figures 4</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Psammisia pseudoverticillata. A Clustered leaves B Inflorescences, side view. [Photos by P. Pedraza-Penalosa.]" pageId="4" pageNumber="37">, 5</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Psammisia pseudoverticillata. A Branch with leaves and inflorescences B Close up of flowers showing the angled calyces. [Photos by P. Pedraza-Penalosa.]" pageId="4" pageNumber="37">, 6</figureCitation>
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="38" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="38">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="5" pageNumber="38" start="start">Diagnosis</pageBreakToken>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="38">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="5" pageNumber="38" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="38">Psammisia pseudoverticillata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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can be easily differentiated from all other
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Klotzsch" authorityYear="1851" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia" order="Ericales" pageId="5" pageNumber="38" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="38">Psammisia</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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s.l. by its leaves, which are clustered and seemingly verticillate, chartaceous, large, obovate, bullate
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="38">in vivo</emphasis>
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, pinnate, decurrent at the base, and subtended by a basally pulvinated petiole. Its congested racemes bear flowers that are distinctive because of their large size, thickness and fleshiness; however, it must be noted that the flowers of this new species shrink significantly upon drying. The flowers of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="5" pageNumber="38" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="38">Psammisia pseudoverticillata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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are also characterized by its color combination and angled calyces and corollas (calyces markedly angled).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="38" type="type">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="38">Type.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="38">
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COLOMBIA. Antioquia: Municipio Urrao. Corregimiento La
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Encarnación">Encarnacion</normalizedToken>
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, Vereda Calles, Parque Nacional Natural Las
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Orquídeas">Orquideas</normalizedToken>
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, camino Calles-La
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Encarnación">Encarnacion</normalizedToken>
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,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="después">despues</normalizedToken>
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de la confluencia del
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
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Polo y el
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
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Calles, antes del
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
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San Pedro, sitio La Quiebra,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="6" direction="north" minutes="30" orientation="latitude" precision="15" seconds="31" value="6.508611">6°30'31"N</geoCoordinate>
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;
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<geoCoordinate degrees="76" direction="west" minutes="14" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-76.23333">76°14'W</geoCoordinate>
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, 1600-1850 m, 31 Jan-2 Feb 2011 (fl),
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="38">
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P.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Pedraza-Peñalosa">Pedraza-Penalosa</normalizedToken>
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, J. Betancur, M. F.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="González">Gonzalez</normalizedToken>
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, G. Giraldo, F.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Gómez">Gomez</normalizedToken>
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, A. Duque & J. Serna 2134
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</emphasis>
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(holotype: COL!; isotypes: HUA!, NY! [NY02058402]).
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<subSubSection lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="39" pageId="5" pageNumber="38" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="38">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="39" pageId="5" pageNumber="38">
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Terrestrial
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="6" pageNumber="39" start="start">shrubs</pageBreakToken>
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</emphasis>
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with arching branches, <1 m tall; stems and twigs somehow flatten, caniculated lengthwise, apparently glabrous, the hairs inconspicuous (<0.1 mm long), unicellular and eglandular (= minute hair type), bark brown and smooth. Axillary buds not observed.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Leaves</emphasis>
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alternate, originated very close together, pseudoverticillate with clusters of 3-5 leaves separated by leafless sections several centimeters long; petiole caniculate, basally pulvinate, 4-12 mm long, glabrate, minute type of hair; lamina chartaceous, bullate
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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, obovate, (17.5-)20.5-24
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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(6.5-)12-14.2 cm (at least 24 cm long, apices incomplete), base attenuate and decurrent, margin entire and eciliate, apex missing in herbarium specimens but probably acuminate, glabrate on both sides, adaxially with caducous minute hairs, abaxially the hairs of arachnoid type, ca. 1 mm long, very thin, multicellular and eglandular; laminar glands absent; venation pinnate, with up to 4 orders visible adaxially in dry specimens, midrib adaxially impressed and abaxially raised, at least 9-11 secondaries per side, these alternate or subopposite, evenly dispersed along the lamina, ascending, adaxially flat and abaxially raised, brochidodromous, intersecondaries frequent.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Inflorescence</emphasis>
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an axillary, solitary, 6-8-flowered raceme; inflorescence bracts, floral bract, and bracteoles alike, persistent, chartaceous, cream-reddish-colored, ovate, 1.6-1.8
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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1.5-2 mm, margin entire and inconspicuously ciliolate, the hairs of the minute type but a few are multicellular, apex obtuse or acute, glabrous on both sides, venation obscure, the bracteoles are different in having apex acute and more abundant marginal multicellular hairs that are fused in masses of fimbria toward the base; peduncle 4 mm long, rachis 5-10 mm long, both red-brown, glabrate, the hairs of the arachnoid type, also covered with minute, whitish warts
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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(inconspicuous when dried, though imparting rough look); pedicel red-brown, articulate with calyx, 12-14 mm long (17 mm
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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), with the same indumentum and warts of the rachis; bracteoles 2, basal, supopposite to alternate.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Flowers</emphasis>
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5-merous, actinomorphic, diplostemonous. Calyx red-brown, ellipsoid, 5-angled, the angles sharp and opposite to the sinuses, 8-9.2 mm long (10.5-11 mm
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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), sparsely tomentulose with a combination of arachnoid and minute hair types, specially warty distally; tube ellipsoid, 6-7.4 mm long (8.5-9 mm
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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); limb erect, 1.8-2 mm long; lobes deltate, 1
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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3.2 mm long, (1.5-1.7
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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4 mm
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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), margin scariose (except at apex) and sometimes broken up in segments or with a few multicellular and eglandular hairs, apex acute; sinuses obtuse (U-shaped); aestivation unknown. Corolla dark pink with white throat and lobes, very fleshy, not bistratose, urceolate, 5-angled, 12-14 mm long (19 mm
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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), 4-5.2 mm diam. (ca. 10 mm
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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), 2.4-3 mm wide at throat (ca. 5 mm
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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), puberulous without with a combination of arachnoid and minute hairs, the indumentum more abundant distally, glabrous within; lobes ovate, ca. 1.1
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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1.1 mm (ca. 2
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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2 mm
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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), apex acute, reflexed at maturity; aestivation valvate.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Stamens</emphasis>
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10, equal, 8.7-9 mm long, included, not adherent to corolla; filaments free, long-triangular, 2.3-2.5 mm long, marginally glabrate, with minute hairs; anthers 8.3-8.5 mm long, connective spurless; thecae 4.1-4.5 mm long, slightly prognathous, without basal appendage, papillate; tubules 2, free, straight, 4-4.2 mm long, smooth, dehiscing by introrse slits, 2.7-3.5 mm long. Nectary not pulvinate, slightly concave
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">in vivo</emphasis>
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, glabrous; style 15-17 mm long, included; stigma punctiform.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Berry</emphasis>
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unknown.
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</paragraph>
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<caption pageId="6" pageNumber="39" start="Figure 4" startId="F4">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="39">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Figure 4.</emphasis>
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Illustration of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="6" pageNumber="39" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Psammisia pseudoverticillata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">A</emphasis>
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Branch with clustered leaves and inflorescence
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">B</emphasis>
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Floral bud and mature flower
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">C</emphasis>
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Flower with the corolla removed to show the stamens arranged around the style; details of the calyx lobes (above) and bracteoles (below)
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">D</emphasis>
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Stamens in lateral, abaxial, adaxial and views. [Drawn from the holotype.]
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<caption pageId="6" pageNumber="39" start="Figure 5" startId="F5">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="39">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Figure 5.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="6" pageNumber="39" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Psammisia pseudoverticillata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">A</emphasis>
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Clustered leaves
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">B</emphasis>
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Inflorescences, side view. [Photos by P.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Pedraza-Peñalosa">Pedraza-Penalosa</normalizedToken>
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.]
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<caption pageId="6" pageNumber="39" start="Figure 6" startId="F6">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="39">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Figure 6.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="6" pageNumber="39" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Psammisia pseudoverticillata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">A</emphasis>
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Branch with leaves and inflorescences
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">B</emphasis>
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Close up of flowers showing the angled calyces. [Photos by P.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Pedraza-Peñalosa">Pedraza-Penalosa</normalizedToken>
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.]
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="39" type="distribution and ecology">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Distribution and ecology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="39">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="6" pageNumber="39" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Psammisia pseudoverticillata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is endemic to Antioquia (Colombia) and it is only known by the type specimen collected in Las
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Orquídeas">Orquideas</normalizedToken>
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National Park. It is known to flower in January and February. It grows in humid montane forests at 1600-1850 m.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="39" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="39">The species epithet refers to the clustered tendency of the leaves.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="39" type="preliminary conservation status">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Preliminary conservation status.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="39">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="6" pageNumber="39" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Psammisia pseudoverticillata</emphasis>
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it is only known by the type specimen collected in montane forests of Las
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Orquídeas">Orquideas</normalizedToken>
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National Park. Only one individual has been observed throughout several years of fieldwork. Currently, montane forest, and the park in general, suffer from degradation product of human activities (agriculture, selective logging, livestock), therefore I consider this species vulnerable due to the small area it occupies, its perceived scarcity, and current habitat threats.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="40" pageId="6" pageNumber="39" type="discussion">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="39">Discussion.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="40" pageId="6" pageNumber="39">
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Apparently,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="7" pageNumber="40" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="40">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="7" pageNumber="40" start="start">Psammisia</pageBreakToken>
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pseudoverticillata
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</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is the only in the genus with seemingly verticillate leaves; only
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<taxonomicName authorityName="J. L. Luteyn" authorityYear="1981" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia oppositiflora" order="Ericales" pageId="7" pageNumber="40" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="oppositiflora">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="40">Psammisia oppositiflora</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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Luteyn has opposite or subopposite leaves.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="7" pageNumber="40" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="40">Psammisia pseudoverticillata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is morphologically closer to
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia orthoneura" order="Ericales" pageId="7" pageNumber="40" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="orthoneura">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="40">Psammisia orthoneura</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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but the latter is differentiated because of its evenly distributed glabrous leaves (vs. leaves clustered, glabrate with minute hairs in
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="7" pageNumber="40" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="40">Psammisia pseudoverticillata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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); obscurely articulate pedicels or apparently continuous with the calyx (vs. articulate); shorter (7-8 mm long), cupuliform, terete calyces (vs. 8-11 mm long, ellipsoid, with 5 well-defined angles); terete and shorter corollas (12-13 mm long vs. 5-angled, 12-19 mm long); and its staminal connectives with obsolete spurs (according to protologue) (vs. without spurs). A plant collected in La
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Serranía">Serrania</normalizedToken>
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de los Paraguas (Valle del Cauca, Municipio El Cairo), where several
|
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Klotzsch" authorityYear="1851" family="Ericaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Ericales" pageId="7" pageNumber="40" rank="family">Ericaceae</taxonomicName>
|
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novelties have recently been found (
|
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<bibRefCitation author="Pedraza-Penalosa, P" journalOrPublisher="Brittonia" pageId="14" pageNumber="47" pagination="1 - 10" publicationUrl="10.1007/s12228-008-9006-3" refId="B10" refString="Pedraza-Penalosa, P, 2008. Three New Species of Disterigma (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae) from western Colombia, with comments on morphological terminology. Brittonia 60: 1 - 10, DOI: 10.1007/s12228-008-9006-3" title="Three New Species of Disterigma (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae) from western Colombia, with comments on morphological terminology." url="10.1007/s12228-008-9006-3" volume="60" year="2008">
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||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Pedraza-Peñalosa">Pedraza-Penalosa</normalizedToken>
|
||
2008
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
), was identified by James L. Luteyn as
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia orthoneura" order="Ericales" pageId="7" pageNumber="40" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="orthoneura">Psammisia aff. orthoneura</taxonomicName>
|
||
. This specimen (
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="40">Luteyn 12330</emphasis>
|
||
) may belong to
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Pedraza" authorityYear="2015" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Psammisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Psammisia pseudoverticillata" order="Ericales" pageId="7" pageNumber="40" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudoverticillata">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="40">Psammisia pseudoverticillata</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. However, the flowers are too immature to make an accurate identification given slight differences in leaf shape.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
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</treatment>
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