12. Mendoncia sprucei Lindau
Mendoncia sprucei Lindau, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 647. 1897. Type collected. along the Rio Negro near San Gabriel da Cachoeira, Brazil, by Spruce, No. 2332. Photographs of type material from the Vienna Herbarium (photo No. 32679) and the Berlin Herbarium (photo No. 5877) are in the U. S. National Herbarium,
Suffrutescent vine up to 7 meters high; stems slender, subterete, sparingly hirsute or glabrous; leaf blades ovate to oblong-ovate, up to 9 cm. long and 6 cm. wide, short acuminate at apex (the tip blunt and bearing a slender mucro up to 2 mm, long), obtuse, rounded, or narrowed at base, sparingly appressed-pilose or densely so on costa and veins (3 or 4 pairs) beneath; petioles up to 4 cm. long, sparingly appressed-pilose; flowers usually solitary in the axils of the leaves; pedicels slender, up to 4 cm. long or more, usually sparingly appressed- pilose; bracts ovate, about 2 cm. long and 1 cm. wide, rounded to acute at apex and apiculate, rounded at base, sparingly appressed- hirtellous without, glabrous within; corolla cream-color with purple streaks in throat, glabrous, 3 cm. long, about 8 mm, broad at throat; fruit slightly flattened, about 2 cm. long and 10 mm. broad, purplish black, glabrous.
Usually found in dense forests of the lower mountain slopes between 40 and 750 meters. Colombia, Peru, and Brazil.
META: Villavicencio, Pennell 1384 (Col, Mo, NY, US).
NORTE DE SANTANDER: El Indio, Río Cubugón, region of Río Sa