| Psammisia | |
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| Psammisia sp., Ecuador | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Subfamily: | Vaccinioideae |
| Tribe: | Vaccinieae |
| Genus: | Psammisia Klotzsch |
Psammisia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It contains the fruiting bushes commonly called joyapas and is distributed throughout the Neotropics.
Description
They are terrestrial or epiphytic shrubs. Leaves usually alternate, rarely subopposite to opposite, petiolate or rarely subsessile, coriaceous, plinerveal or pinnatinerveal, the margins entire. Axillary or terminal inflorescences, subfasciculate or racemose with few to many flowers; flower bract 1, small; pedicels articulated with calyx; bracteoles 2, usually basal. Flowers 5-mere, scentless, aestivation valved; synsepalous calyx, the tube terete, rarely winged, the limb erect or patent; corolla sympetalous, subcylindrical, elongated, urceolate or subglobose, fleshy; stamens (8-)10(-12), equal, 1/3 of the corolla to almost as long as it; filaments distinct or connate, the same, the connectives all lateral and distally 2-spurred or without spurs (spurs rarely inconspicuous or absent), the spurs acute and conspicuous or rounded and not very apparent; anthers equal, rigid, disintegration tissue absent, thecae granular, tubules distinct, 1/4 length of thecae to about as long as them, dehiscent by elongated introrse slits; threadless pollen of viscina; inferior ovary. Fruits in berries, coriaceous.
Species
Species include:[1]
| Image | Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|
.jpg.webp) | Psammisia aberrans | Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
| Psammisia amazonica | Ecuador (Morona-Santiago Prov.) and Peru | |
| Psammisia aurantiaca | Ecuador (Pichincha) | |
| Psammisia caloneura | southern Colombia and northern Ecuador | |
| Psammisia chionantha | Ecuador | |
| Psammisia columbiensis | Colombia and Ecuador | |
| Psammisia corallina | Ecuador | |
| Psammisia cuyujensis | Ecuador (Napo Prov.) | |
| Psammisia darienensis | Panama | |
| Psammisia debilis | Southern Colombia to central Ecuador. | |
| Psammisia dolichopoda | Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador | |
 | Psammisia ecuadorensis | Ecuador |
| Psammisia ferruginea | W Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador | |
| Psammisia fissilis | Ecuador and Peru | |
| Psammisia flaviflora | Ecuador (Pichincha Prov.) | |
| Psammisia grabneriana | Colombia and Ecuador | |
.jpg.webp) | Psammisia guianensis | Brazil and the Guianas, to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia |
| Psammisia idalima | Southern Colombia (Putumayo) and Ecuador | |
| Psammisia incana | Ecuador (Napo Prov.) | |
| Psammisia montana | West-central Colombia to northern Ecuador (Carchi) | |
| Psammisia oreogenes | Ecuador | |
| Psammisia orientalis | Ecuador (Morona-Santiago) | |
| Psammisia pauciflora | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia | |
| Psammisia ramiflora | Costa Rica and Panama | |
| Psammisia roseiflora | Oriente of Ecuador | |
| Psammisia sclerantha | Ecuador | |
.jpg.webp) | Psammisia sodiroi | Colombia and Ecuador |
.jpg.webp) | Psammisia ulbrichiana | Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
| Psammisia williamsii | Costa Rica |
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