11. Mendoncia puberula (Mart.) Nees
Mendozia puberula Mart. Nov. Gea. & Sp. 3: 24. 1829. Type locality: "In Sylvis primaevis prope S. Crucis et alibi in montibus, Serra dos Orgãos, dictis, Provincia Sebastianopolitanae, ac similibus locis prope urbem Para." Mendozia pubescens Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 11. 1845. Type collected in woods near Ega, northern Brazil, by Poeppig. A photograph of type material (photo No. 32696) from the Vienna Herbarium is in the U. S. National Herbarium. Poeppig and Endlicher cite Mendozia puberula Mart. 8 micropus as a synonym.
Mendozia selloviana Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 9: 10. 1847. Type collected in Brazil by Sellow, No. 91 (Berlin Herbarium).
Mendoncia selloviana Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 53. 1847. Based on Mendozia selloviana Nees.
Mendoncia puberula Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 53. 1847. Based on Mendozia puberula Mart.
Mendoncia splitgerberiana De Vriese in Nederl. Kruidk. Arch. 1: 353. 1848. Type collected near the Merveille Plantation, Surinam, by Splitgerber. Suffrutescent vines; stems quadrangular, the young branches densely hirsute, the older ones more or less hirsute to glabrate, the tips cirrose; leaf blades elliptic-ovate, elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, up to 11.5 cm. long and 8.5 cm. wide but usually smaller, acuminate, more or less rounded or short-attenuate at base, the costa and lateral veins (5 or 6 pairs) prominent, the upper leaf surface hirsute or glabrescent, the hairs sometimes arising from star-shaped bases, the lower surface, at least the larger veins, hirsute; flowers 1 or 2, borne in the axils of the leaves, the pedicels 1 to 3 cm. long, more or less hirsute, the hairs spreading; bracts oblong-elliptic, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 1 to 1.3 cm. wide, the tip obtuse or rounded, mucronate, densely hirsute with spreading hairs or sometimes hirtose-pubescent, the hairs about 1 mm. long, the inner surface glabrous; calyx annular, about 0.5 mm. long, glab- rous; corolla 2.2 to 3.7 cm. long, glabrous; anthers 8 mm. long, fila- ments (free portion) about 3 mm. long, glabrous; drupe lenticular, compressed, ovate, 1.6 cm. long and 1 cm. in diameter, glabrous.
No Colombian specimens were examined. The description was com- piled from that of Turrill. Martius states in his description of Mendozia puberula that the corolla was white with blue or purple spotted markings on the limb. Turrill cites Kalbreyer's specimen (No. 830) collected at Salazar, Santander, Colombia.
Forests of Surinam, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador.