Gouania pubidisca A. Pool, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.ined.

            Liana; young branches solid, indumentum dense tomentose, or tomentose with additional scattered spreading trichomes, white, yellow or light red-brown. Leaf blades 4.5—10 x 3--8 cm, ovate or elliptic, membranaceous, adaxial surface drying dark green to dark brown-green, abaxial surface drying light yellow-green often with starkly contrasting black marginal glands, adaxial surface abundant to scattered tomentose, the trichomes 0.2—0.5 mm, white, abaxial surface dense pilose to tomentose, trichomes 0.25—0.75 mm, spreading and matted, white or yellow-white, lateral veins 5 or 6 (7) pairs, at 45--60º angle to midrib, base cordate, subcordate or rounded, margin crenate or crenulate,1--2 teeth/cm, tooth glands pustular to slightly pulvinate, apex acute-apiculate or obtuse-apiculate (rarely acuminate); stipules un-lobed or with small foot, usually caducous, 1.5—3.75 x 0.5—1.1 mm, erect usually tightly appressed, ovate (rarely lanceolate), acute (rarely acuminate), foot, if present, 0.2—0.75 (1.5) x 0.1—0.25 mm, curving downward, ovate or subulate, acute; petioles 5--20 mm. Inflorescence with longest racemiform part 15--28 cm, indumentum of rachis similar to that of branches, bract of cyme 1.25—3 mm, lanceolate or ovate, acuminate, cyme appearing sessile. Mature flowers appearing sessile to pedicels 0.5 mm, hypanthium dense pilose, the trichomes yellow or yellow-white. Sepals 0.75—1.1 mm, dense pilose, the trichomes yellow or yellow-white. Petals 0.6—0.9 mm; stamens with filaments 0.35--0.6 (0.7) mm, narrowly triangular or linear, anthers 0.15—0.25 (0.3) mm; disc excluding lobes 0.9—1.6 mm diam., entire disc, excluding lobes, pubescent to trichomes only in lines, the lines long to short, radiating from annulus, disc lobes ca. 0.15—0.3 x 0.3—0.7 mm at apex, transversely rectangular, generally apically bi-lobed, 1/5—1/3 length of sepals; style glabrous or pubescent. Young fruits indumentum dense velutinous, the trichomes yellow or yellow-white; mature mericarp out-line butterfly shaped with emarginations at apex and base, the wings attached to apex and base of fruit body as well as sides, externally drying green-brown to light yellow-brown, darker over fruit body, indumentum abundant, pilose to velutinous with trichomes 0.25—0.5 mm, white to light red-brown, internally drying yellow-white or yellow-green, contrasting only slightly with slightly darker or slightly red-tinted fruit body, sometimes pale red along margin of fruit body or an additional concentric pale red ring on wings, fruit body 4--7 mm high, wings 7--10 mm high, distance between highest points of two wings 4--7 mm, width of mericarp 10--14 mm, 2—2.5 times height of fruit body, width of fruit body 3—3.2 (3.75) mm, 1/5--½ width of mericarp. Seeds 2.5—3.25 x 1.6—2.75 mm, shiny brown.  

 

Uncommon, deciduous forest, Pacific Nicaragua; 40—500 (950) m; fl ene, feb, mature fr not known from Nicaragua; Moreno 6488, Stevens 33195; Pacific Mexico to Nicaragua