# Macleania

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***Macleania*** is a genus of [plants](/source/Plant) in the family [Ericaceae](/source/Ericaceae).

## Description

They are epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs. Alternate leaves, petiolate, coriaceous, pinnatinervias or plinervias. Subfasciculate or racemose inflorescences, axillary or terminal, with few to numerous flowers, bibracteolate pedicels, deciduous bracteoles; hypanthium articulated with the pedicel, cylindrical or campanulate; calyx limb erect and patent, (3–) 5-lobed, lobes subacute and triangular; corolla subcylindrical or elongated urceolate, 5-parted, triangular lobes, acute to subacute; stamens usually 10, equal, usually about half as long as corolla, filaments free or connate, anthers strong with strongly granular thecae, tubules nearly as long as anther sacs, or laterally connate or fused to form a tubule simple, rarely completely free, opening by elongated free or fused slits, introrse; style threadlike and about the same length as the corolla or longer, ovary 5-locular. The fruit is a berry with numerous small seeds.[1]

## Taxonomy

The genus was described by [William Jackson Hooker](/source/William_Jackson_Hooker) and published in *Icones Plantarum* 2:t. 109. 1837, based on a specimen brought from Peru. Johann Friedrich Klotzsch identified ten species in 1851. Later Hooker separated Psammisia from Macleania. Oscar Drude (1891) and William Wright Smith (1942), as well as other botanists, pointed out the remarkable nature of this genus and its relationship with Psammisia. *Macleania* was named for John Maclean (1786-1857), a Scottish merchant who exported plants from Lima, Peru.[2][3]

Species include:

Image Name Distribution Macleania alata Ecuador. Macleania amplexicaulis Colombia (Cauca) Macleania angulata Peru. Macleania antioquiae Colombia. Macleania benthamiana Ecuador to Peru. Macleania bullata Colombia to Ecuador. Macleania coccoloboides Ecuador. Macleania cordifolia Ecuador to Peru. Macleania costeroides Ecuador (Napo) Macleania crassa Colombia (Cauca, Valle del Cauca. ) Macleania dodsonii Ecuador. Macleania epiphytica Panama. Macleania ericae Ecuador. Macleania farinosa Peru. Macleania floribunda Peru. Macleania hirtiflora Ecuador, NW. Venezuela Macleania insignis S. Mexico to Central America Macleania loeseneriana Ecuador. Macleania macrantha Colombia to N. Peru. Macleania maldonadensis Ecuador. Macleania mollis Ecuador. Macleania penduliflora Colombia (Antioquia). Macleania pentaptera Ecuador. Macleania poortmannii Ecuador. Macleania pubiflora Colombia (Boyacá, Cauca, Nariño.) Macleania recumbens Ecuador. Macleania robusta Colombia (Magdalena. ) Macleania rotundifolia Ecuador. Macleania rupestris Nicaragua to Venezuela and Bolivia Macleania salapa Ecuador to Peru. Macleania smithiana Colombia to Ecuador. Macleania spectabilis Colombia. Macleania stricta Colombia. Macleania subsessilis Ecuador. Macleania tropica Colombia.

## References

1. ["Name - Macleania Hook."](http://legacy.tropicos.org/Name/40011057). *Tropicos*. 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-03-15.

1. ["Dave's Garden"](https://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/go/8039/#b). *Dave's Garden*. Retrieved 12 Aug 2019.

1. The Weekly Standard and Express (Blackburn, Lancashire, England). 30 Sep 1857, Wed. Page 3

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