Aphelandra maculata (Tafalla ex Nees) Voss

Aphelandra maculata (Tafalla ex Nees) Voss

Aphelandra maculata (Tafalla ex Nees) Voss, Vilmorin’s Blumeng. ed. 3, 1:819. 1894.

Lagochilium maculatum Tafalla ex Nees, in de Candolle, Prodr. 11:290. 1847.

Stenandrium lindeni N. E. Brown, Ill. Hort. 38:91, pl. 136. 1891.

Stenandrium × beeckmanianum L. Linden, III. Hort. 39:121, pl. 166. 1892 [hybrid of cross between Stenandrium pictum ♂ and S. lindeni ♀].

Herb 15–16 cm high; stems prostrate, rooting at the base, sparingly branched, about 3 mm in diameter, puberulous; leaf blades oblong, 9–15 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, obtusely rounded, gradually narrowed from slightly above the middle to base and decurrent on the petiole, thin, entire or subundulate, the upper surface grayish olive except along the costa and lateral veins here distinctly marked with deep greenish yellow spots, the lower surface light purple, glabrous or sparingly and inconspicuously strigillose both above and below; petioles 10–15 mm long, densely sericeous; flowers borne in one or more lax, terminal, cylindric spikes, these 4–6 cm long, the peduncle slender, purplish, 2–3 cm long, densely sericeous, the rachis flat, puberulous; bracts greenish yellow, imbricate, spreading with age, oblong-oval, 12 mm long, 5 mm wide, acuminate, slightly narrowed at base, the outer surface sparingly puberulous, the margins repand-serrate just above the middle of the bract bearing 4 pairs of ascending teeth (0.5–1 mm long); bractlets lanceolate, carinate, membranaceous-subhyaline, 3 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, sparingly ciliate; calyx segments lanceolate, the posterior segment 6 mm long and 1.2 mm wide near base, the anterior pair 6 mm long and 0.8 mm wide at base, the lateral pair 6 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, all membranaceous, narrowed upwardly to a slender tip, the margins sparingly ciliate; corolla yellow, pale green when dry, 2.2–2.3 cm long, sparingly and inconspicuously glandular pilose, the tube 1.5 mm broad from base to 1 cm above base, thence enlarged (abruptly) to 4.5 mm at throat, the upper lip obovate, 4.5 mm long and 6 mm wide, bilobed, the lobes 1.5 mm long and 2.5 mm wide, obtuse, the lower lip 3-lobed, subequal, the middle lobe obovate, 3.5 mm long, 5 mm wide, retuse, the lateral lobes obovate, 4 mm long, 3 mm wide, obtuse; anthers 2 mm long, obtuse, bearing tufts of long weak hairs; filaments epipetalous, glabrous; ovary and style glabrous; capsule greenish yellow, clavate, 9 mm long, 2 mm broad, glabrous, minutely punctate; seeds muricate, dark brown, 2 mm long and 1.5 mm broad.

LECTOTYPE.—Hall 34 (holotype K), Ecuador, Guayaquil, Caniguo.

DISTRIBUTION.—Deep shade of dense woods, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. ECUADOR. CHIMBORAZO: El Limón, Jul 1860, Spruce s.n. (K). PERU. SAN MARTIN: Mariscal Caceres: Tocache Nuevo, La Campinna, 400 m alt, 9 Sep 1969, Schunke 3407 (F, US); Tocache Nuevo, Puerto Pizana, 15 Jan 1971, Schunke 4658 (F, US); forest near Cerro de Cumbasso, Mar 1903, Ule 6818 (HBG). AYACUCHO: Estrella, between Huanta and Río Apurimac, 500 m alt, 8, 14 May 1929, Killip & Smith 23088 (US); La Mar: Hacienda Luisiana, 585 m alt, 8 Jun 1968, Dudley 10020 (NA). BOLIVIA. LA PAZ: Ixiamas-Tumupasa trail, 450 m alt, 1901–1902, Williams 298 (NY); Tumupasa, 450 m alt, 4 Dec 1921, Cardenas 1954 (NY). CULTIVATED MATERIAL: Cult. in Hort. Bot. Kew, Dec 1893, (holotype of Stenandrium lindeni N. E. Brown).

Aphelandra goodspeedii Standley & Barkley

Aphelandra goodspeedii Standley & Barkley, Madroño 9:154. 1948.

Eranthemum igneum Linden, Cat. 1867:5. 1867.—van Houtte, Fl. Serres 17, pl. 1722. 1867.—Morren, Rev. Hort. 1:491. 1867.

Chamaeranthemum igneum (Linden) Regel, Gartenflora 17: 353, pl. 598. 1868.

Stenandrium igneum (Linden) André, Ill. Hort 24:10, pl. 266. 1877. [non Stenandrium igneum Nees, 1847].

Stenandrium pictum N. E. Brown, Ill. Hort. 38:91. 1891 [nom. nov.].

Xantheranthemum igneum (Linden) Lindau, Engl. Jahrb. 18:54. 1894.

Prostrate perennial herb to 15 cm high; stems simple, subascending, rooting at the lower nodes, setose; leaf blades spatulate to lanceolate, 3–8 cm long, 0.9–2.4 cm wide, obtusely rounded, cuneate and decurrent at base, subcoriaceous, entire or subundulate, when dry bluish above, grayish below, except whitish along costa and lateral veins, setose on both surfaces but more abundantly so below; petioles 2–4 mm long, densely pilose; flowers borne in one or more terminal spikes about 4.5 cm long, the peduncle about 0.8 cm long, pilose like the rachis, stem, and petioles; bracts green, lanceolate, acuminate, repand-serrate toward tip with about 5 pairs of teeth, 3.5–4 mm wide, and 12 mm long, in fruit ovate-lanceolate, about 4 mm wide, 12 mm long, hirsute on the outer surface; bractlets lanceolate, acuminate, entire, puberulent, membranaceoussubhyaline, about 4.5 mm long; calyx segments lanceolate, acuminate, entire, minutely ciliate on the margins, subhyaline, delicately striate-nerved, about 4.5 mm long, 1 mm wide, the lateral pair 4.5 mm long and 0.75 mm wide; corolla yellow, glabous to sparingly puberulent, the tube 2 cm long, 2 mm wide at base, 4.5 mm wide at mouth, the upper lip 4 mm long, the tip divided into obtuse lobes 1.5 mm long and 2 mm wide, the lower lip 3-lobed, the middle lobe suborbicular, 5 mm long and 6 mm wide, the lateral lobes obovate, 3.5 mm wide; stamens barely reaching the mouth of the corolla tube; anthers 2 mm long, obtuse, bearing tufts of long weak hairs; filaments pilose; ovary and style glabrous; capsule about 7.5 mm long, glabrous; valves recurved after dehiscence; seeds four.

TYPE.—H. E. Stork & O. B. Horton 9597 (holotype UC), Peru, Huánuco, 10 km downstream from Tingo María, 630 m alt, 2 Nov 1938.

DISTRIBUTION.—Deep humus shade, Andean Peru, at elevations between 300–1100 meters, in the departments of San Martín, Huánuco, Cusco, and Madre de Dios. PERU. SAN MARTIN: Tingo María, near Cueva de las Lechugas, 625–1100 m alt, 30 Oct 1949–19 Feb 1950, Allard 21400 (US); Tingo María, 12 Aug 1940, Asplund 12991 (S). HUÁNUCO: Posuso, Jul 186?, Pearce 277, 588 (K); Pachitea: Honoria, road to Agamiria, 300 m alt, 17 Nov 1966, Schunke 1238 (F, US); road to Shahuinto to 3 km from Iparía camp, 5 Apr 1967, Schunke 1818 (F, US); Puerto Inca, trail to the Shiringal Agua Dolce camp, 6 Dec 1968, Schunke 2819 (F, US). cusco: Paucartambo: Between Pilcopata and Keros, 680 m alt, 28 Jul 1965, Vargas 16354 (US); between Keros and Kosnipata, 750 m alt, 7 Feb 1966, Vargas 17866 (US). MADRE DE DIOS: Río Acre, Nov 1911, Ule 9828 (K). CULTIVATED MATERIAL. Kew, 5 Sep 1891, (holotype of Stenandrium pictum N. E. Brown).