Macleania

Macleania is a genus of plants in the family Ericaceae.

Macleania
Macleania insignis, US Botanic Garden, Washington, DC
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Subfamily: Vaccinioideae
Tribe: Vaccinieae
Genus: Macleania
Hook.
Type species
Macleania floribunda
Hook. 1837

Description

They are epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs. Alternate leaves, petiolate, coriaceous, pinnatinervias or plinervias. Subfasciculate or racemose inflorescences, axillary or terminal, with few to numerous flowers, bibracteolate pedicels, deciduous bracteoles; hypanthium articulated with the pedicel, cylindrical or campanulate; calyx limb erect and patent, (3–) 5-lobed, lobes subacute and triangular; corolla subcylindrical or elongated urceolate, 5-parted, triangular lobes, acute to subacute; stamens usually 10, equal, usually about half as long as corolla, filaments free or connate, anthers strong with strongly granular thecae, tubules nearly as long as anther sacs, or laterally connate or fused to form a tubule simple, rarely completely free, opening by elongated free or fused slits, introrse; style threadlike and about the same length as the corolla or longer, ovary 5-locular. Fruit a berry with numerous small seeds[1]

Taxonomy

The genus was described by William Jackson Hooker and published in Icones Plantarum 2:t. 109. 1837, based on a specimen brought from Peru. Johann Friedrich Klotzsch identified ten species in 1851. Later Hooker separated Psammisia from Macleania. Oscar Drude (1891) and William Wright Smith (1942), as well as other botanists, pointed out the remarkable nature of this genus and its relationship with Psammisia. Macleania was named for John Maclean (1786-1857), a Scottish merchant who exported plants from Lima, Peru.[2][3]

Species include:

ImageNameDistribution
Macleania alataEcuador.
Macleania amplexicaulisColombia (Cauca)
Macleania angulataPeru.
Macleania antioquiaeColombia.
Macleania benthamianaEcuador to Peru.
Macleania bullataColombia to Ecuador.
Macleania coccoloboidesEcuador.
Macleania cordifoliaEcuador to Peru.
Macleania costeroidesEcuador (Napo)
Macleania crassaColombia (Cauca, Valle del Cauca. )
Macleania dodsoniiEcuador.
Macleania epiphyticaPanama.
Macleania ericaeEcuador.
Macleania farinosaPeru.
Macleania floribundaPeru.
Macleania hirtifloraEcuador, NW. Venezuela
Macleania insignisS. Mexico to Central America
Macleania loesenerianaEcuador.
Macleania macranthaColombia to N. Peru.
Macleania maldonadensisEcuador.
Macleania mollisEcuador.
Macleania pendulifloraColombia (Antioquia).
Macleania pentapteraEcuador.
Macleania poortmanniiEcuador.
Macleania pubifloraColombia (Boyacá, Cauca, Nariño.)
Macleania recumbensEcuador.
Macleania robustaColombia (Magdalena. )
Macleania rotundifoliaEcuador.
Macleania rupestrisNicaragua to Venezuela and Bolivia
Macleania salapaEcuador to Peru.
Macleania smithianaColombia to Ecuador.
Macleania spectabilisColombia.
Macleania strictaColombia.
Macleania subsessilisEcuador.
Macleania tropicaColombia.

References
  1. "Name - Macleania Hook". Tropicos. 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  2. "Dave's Garden". Dave's Garden. Retrieved 12 Aug 2019.
  3. The Weekly Standard and Express (Blackburn, Lancashire, England). 30 Sep 1857, Wed. Page 3
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