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Steyerm. (
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: 428, figure 42)
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(Steyerm.) Steyerm. (
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: 555)
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(Steyerm.) C.M.Taylor (
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: 122)
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.
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Along
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;
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,
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&amp;
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53562
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;
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: VEN [No. 63029]
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.
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<paragraph id="73623CF40740C76D395F45946F66877F" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">Description.</paragraph>
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Shrub 2.0-2.5 m tall, single-stemmed, glabrous; distal internodes terete, 10-12 mm in diam., somewhat succulent, glabrous. Stipules basally sheathing, truncate to shallowly elliptic, 2-3
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10-12 mm, glabrous. Leaves with petioles 2.0-2.5 cm long, glabrous; blades elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 26-37
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10-12 cm, acute at base, abruptly acuminate at apex, acumen narrowly triangular, 2.0-2.5 cm long, somewhat succulent to coriaceous when fresh, drying brownish-olive green above and pale olive green below (&quot;silvery beneath&quot; when fresh, fide
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), glabrous throughout; secondary veins 38-40 on each side [Steyermark wrote &quot;lateral veins 40-45 on each side&quot; without distinguishing secondary and intersecondary veins], barely visible in dry specimens; tertiary veins barely visible in dry specimens; domatia absent. Inflorescence terminal, long-pedunculate, capitate; peduncles 4.5 cm long, gradually wider towards the head, ca 3 mm wide just below the head, glabrous, drying dark brown; head multiflorous, subtended by cup-shaped structure made by 2 bracts connate at base, the cup-shaped base 3 mm long and 1.7 cm wide; the free portion of bracts subequal, broadly ovate, 1.8
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2.6 cm, cream-white when fresh, pale brown when dry, persistent, drying pale brown, glabrous; internal bracts subtending fascicles of ca 3 flowers falcate-sublanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3.5-4.0
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1.0-1.5 mm, entire of with a lateral tooth at base, glabrous; bracteoles absent [fide Steyermark]. Flowers 5-merous, pedicellate; pedicels 7-8 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm thick, fleshy, angular. Hypanthium narrowly oblong-turbinate, size unknown, glabrous. Calyx cupular, 1.5-2.0 mm long, 5-toothed, teeth deltoid to triangular-subulate, 0.2-0.6 mm long, glabrous. Corolla hypocrateriform, 12-13 mm long, glabrous, white; tube narrowly cylindrical, 9-11 mm long, 1 mm wide, glabrous outside and inside; lobes ovate, 2
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1.5 mm, subacute at apex, glabrous outside, papillose inside. Stamens inserted below the middle of the corolla base; anthers subsessile, included, narrowly oblong, 2 mm long. Disk and style unknown. Fruits ellipsoid, 4 x 2.5-3 mm. Pyrenes (seen through dried fruits) dorsally costate.
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<paragraph id="05A02C63C5FF5E1F7BE526C1B30F31B8" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Only known from the holotype specimen, collected on Cordillera Epicara, state of
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, southern Venezuela.
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<paragraph id="8C4B41D173C6AEA442E770518E555D6B" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">Ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6BD11B2E6398714B03FAF2C688ECE4AA" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">Evergreen forest, at ca 400 m elevation.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="64CC81AB97970FD14177369226522FE1" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">Phenology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C034B3A54F279527AE1205179BAC5E8B" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">The only collection, with both flowers and fruits, was made in September.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="9FAB2DAA41DF7BD4409A363728015D50" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">Notes.</paragraph>
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The only collection of this species was seen on photograph, and as the high-resolution image available at JSTOR Global Plants (https://plants.jstor.org/). The above description is largely based on
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,
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). Although
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: 428-430, figure 42) described and illustrated flowers, the holotype, which is evidently the specimen on which the drawing was based, has only fruits and no flower is left.
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: 430) separated
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from
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<emphasis id="3525E07507EACA433E29DE6B9DB8295A" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">N. altsonii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the &quot;shorter peduncle, longer pedicels, absence of bracteoles, more conspicuously and unequally dentate calyx-lobes, and acute, ovate calyx-lobes&quot;. These two species are in fact quite similar.
<taxonomicName id="2E0C923F942964CBD1B13BBDF5627A8C" authorityName="C. M. Taylor (Taylor" authorityYear="2004" baseAuthorityName="Steyerm." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rubiaceae" genus="Notopleura" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Notopleura sandwithiana" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="275" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="sandwithiana">
<emphasis id="9F4DF06F3E5EE617206FE19B3F6E2BB9" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">Notopleura sandwithiana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
apparently has only two involucral bracts (while there are four in
<taxonomicName id="FBFD50513CE3723D14A33925A745D010" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rubiaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="N. altsonii" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="275" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="altsonii">
<emphasis id="4D4D6FF888A7FE649B2C3EF88B74742E" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">N. altsonii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and also has a shorter peduncle and longer pedicels than those of
<taxonomicName id="30F11D0ADA1CE5DD388EBCC07C206925" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rubiaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="N. altsoni" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="275" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="altsoni">
<emphasis id="3D5435529DBD9C7963CE319AB8BA77BB" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">N. altsoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The taxonomic value of these characters is difficult to assess with so little material available. The length of the pedicels is of doubtful taxonomic value, since they most likely elongate during fruit ripening.
<bibRefCitation id="03F9F61940B2E86ED4E5552D659B918D" author="Steyermark, JA" editor="Maguire, B &amp; coll" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden" pageId="0" pageNumber="275" pagination="230 - 436" refId="B42" refString="Steyermark, JA, 1967. Rubiaceae. In: Maguire, B &amp; coll, Ed., (Eds) The Botany of the Guayana Highland - Part VII. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 17: 230 - 436" title="Rubiaceae." volume="17" volumeTitle="(Eds) The Botany of the Guayana Highland - Part VII." year="1967">Steyermark (1967)</bibRefCitation>
mentioned, as additional differences, the shape of the calyx lobes, which is not a reliable character, and the absence of bracteoles subtending the individual flowers of
<taxonomicName id="ED7224C3F0F2D7E788924DF56C49A7C4" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rubiaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="N. sandwithiana" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="275" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="sandwithiana">
<emphasis id="511A1CC17106FE39BDF699390C8F7EC4" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="275">N. sandwithiana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, a feature that we could not check. For a morphological comparison of these two species see Table
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.
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