Kohleria allenii Standl. & L. O. Williams

1. Kohleria allenii Standl. & L. O. Wms., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 28: 291. 1968. TYPE: Prov. Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Allen 6300 (F, holotype; US, isotype ).

Woody herbs; stem round or angled, erect or ascending, 1.0-1.5 m tall, reddish above, brownish below, pilose. Leaves 2-4 at a node, reduced above, lanceolate to ovate, 5-8 cm long, 2.5-4.0 cm wide, acute to acuminate, serrulate, reddish, the base acute to subtruncate, above dark green, sparsely pilose to scabrous, below light green, densely pilose; petioles 0.5-2.0 cm long. Inflorescences few flowered in the axils of the upper reduced leaves; peduncles not evident; bracts ovate, ca. 5 mm long, green, pilose; pedicels elongate, ca. 4 cm long, green or reddish, pilose. Flowers showy, the floral tube oblique, gibbous to 1 side, rounded, green or reddish, pilose; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes connate briefly at the base, triangular ovate, 5-8 mm long, accrescent in fruit, green with red margins, pilose; corolla cylindric campanulate, 25-30 mm long, ca. 5 mm wide at base, broadening to 1.5 cm broad at middle and above, yellow with red hairs outside, inside red maculate, glandular; stamens 4, equalling the corolla, the anthers coherent in 2 pairs; disc sublobatc; ovary apex pilose, the style ca. 2 cm long, the stigma bilobate. Fruit many seeded enclosed in the persistent calyx; seeds fusiform, acuminate at both ends, ca. 0.25 mm long, striate.

Its habitat is dry, steep hillsides at ca. 500 m elevation.

This species in floral characters is reminiscent of Capanea grandiflora with its large campanulate spotted corolla.

Kohleria allenii is rare in Panamá, found only in the province of Chiriquí, but is somewhat more common in Costa Rica.

Chiriquí: San Bartolo Limite, 19 km W of Puerto Armelles, 500 m, Busey 609 (MO, NY)

Kohleria allenii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Tai voi. Loài này được Standl. & L.O. Williams mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1968.