font settings and languages

Font Size: Large | Normal | Small
Font Face: Verdana | Geneva | Georgia
Languages:

Psychotria hoffmannseggiana

(Hoffmannsegg's Wild Coffee)

Overview

[ Back to top ]

Interesting Facts

[ Back to top ]
 

Common Names

[ Back to top ]

Common Names in English:

Hoffmannsegg's Wild Coffee

Description

[ Back to top ]

Family Rubiaceae

The Rubiaceae are trees , shrubs , or infrequently herbs comprising about 450 genera and 6,500 species, including some lianous forms. The leaves are simple and usually entire, and are opposite or sometimes whorled ; stipules are present and interpetiolar . The flowers are nearly always bisexual and actinomorphic , often heterostylous, and usually are in cymose inflorescences. The calyx is mostly somewhat reduced and 4-5-lobed or sometimes the lobes are obsolete or rarely one of them greatly expanded and brightly colored . The sympetalous corolla is mostly 4-5-lobed, occasionally with 3 or up to 10 lobes. The androecium consists of as many stamens as corolla lobes and is adnate to the corolla tube or epigynous zone, alternate with the lobes. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 2 or seldom more carpels, a single style, and a nearly always inferior ovary with the number of locules equaling the number of carpels, each with 1-many axile ovules. An epigynous nectary disk is usually present. The fruit is variable, sometimes forming multiples . -- Gerald Carr.

Physical Description

Habit: Shrub

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[1]

Biology

[ Back to top ]

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

[ Back to top ]

Synonyms

Carapichea patrisii Dc. • Cephaelis dichotoma Schult. • Cephaelis furcata Bartl. ex Dc. • Cephaelis hoffmannseggiana Willd. Ex Schult. • Cephaelis microcephala Miq. • Cephaelis patrisii< /i> (Dc.) D. Dietr.Cephaelis rubra Willd. Ex Schult. • Patabea capitellata Wawra • Psychotria barbiflora Dc. • Psychotria barbiflora var. amazonica Müll. Arg. • Psychotria capitellata (Wawra) Benth. & Hook. F. • Psychotria erythrophylla Müll. Arg. • Psychotria flavicans Müll. Arg. • Psychotria furcata Dc. • Psychotria hoffmannseggiana f. pubescens Steyerm. • Psychotria hoffmannseggiana var. celsa Steyerm. • Psychotria hoffmannseggiana var. erythrophylla (Müll. Arg.) Steyerm. • Psychotria hoffmannseggiana var. tribracteata (C. Wright Ex Griseb.) Steyerm. • Psychotria microcephala Miq. • Psychotria rubra< /i> (Willd. Ex Schult.) Müll. Arg.Psychotria tenuiramea Müll. Arg. • Psychotria tribracteata C. Wright Ex Griseb. • Psychotria villosa Vell. • Uragoga barbiflora< /i> (Dc.) KuntzeUragoga capitellata (Wawra) Kuntze • Uragoga carapichea Kuntze • Uragoga erythrophylla< /i> (Müll. Arg.) KuntzeUragoga flavicans< /i> (Müll. Arg.) KuntzeUragoga furcata< /i> (Dc.) KuntzeUragoga hoffmannseggiana (Willd. Ex Schult.) Kuntze • Uragoga tribracteata< /i> (C. Wright Ex Griseb.) M. Gómez

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003

Similar Species

[ Back to top ]

Members of the genus Psychotria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 37 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

P. berteriana (Psychotria) · P. brachiata (Palo De Cachimbo) · P. deflexa (Nodding Wild Coffee) · P. domingensis (Cheakyberry) · P. fauriei (Koolau Range Wild Coffee) · P. garberiana (Psychotria) · P. glabrata (Browne's Wild Coffee) · P. grandiflora (Large-Flowered Balsamo) · P. grandis (Cachimbo Grande) · P. greenwelliae (Kauai Wild Coffee) · P. guadalupensis (Guadalupe Wild Coffee) · P. hathewayi (Waianae Range Wild Coffee) · P. hathewayi Fosberg var. brevipetiolata Fosberg (Waianae Range Wild Coffee) · P. hawaiiensis (Kopiko 'ula) · P. hawaiiensis (Gray) Fosberg var. scoriacea (Rock) Fosberg (Kopiko 'ula) · P. hexandra (Woodland Wild Coffee) · P. hobdyi (Hobdy's Wild-Coffee) · P. hoffmannseggiana (Hoffmannsegg's Wild Coffee) · P. insularum (Island Wild Coffee) · P. ipecacuanha (Ipecac) · P. kaduana (Kopiko Kea) · P. ligustrifolia (Bahama Coffee) · P. maleolens (Cachimbo De Gato) · P. maricaensis (Cachimbo De Maricao) · P. mariniana (Forest Wild Coffee) · P. mauiensis ('opiko) · P. microdon (Thicket Wild Coffee) · P. nervosa (Seminole Balsamo) · P. nutans (Floating Balsamo) · P. peteri (Wild Coffee) · P. pubescens (Hairy Wild Coffee) · P. punctata (Dotted Wild Coffee) · P. revoluta (Curl-Leaf Wild Coffee) · P. rufipes (White Wild Coffee) · P. tenuifolia (Shortleaf Wild Coffee) · P. viridis (Amiruca Panga) · P. wawrae (Leatherleaf Wild Coffee)

More Info

[ Back to top ]

Further Reading

[ Back to top ]

Notes

[ Back to top ]

Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Mean = 277.350 meters (909.941 feet), Standard Deviation = 662.210 based on 533 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012