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(Last Modified On 7/19/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/19/2013)
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Species
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Diospyros salicifolia Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. PI., ed. 4. 4: 112. 1805.
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Note
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TYPE:? near Acapulco, Mexico, Humboldt & Bonpland (B, not seen; photo FHO)
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Description
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Shrub or tree to 15 m tall; branchlets tomentellous with short hairs and longer sparser spreading hairs. Leaves chartaceous, drying reddish brown or yellowish brown; lamina to 9 cm long and 4 cm wide, oblanceolate, the apex acute to subacuminate, the base cuneate, the lower surface densely strigose on the midrib, more sparsely so elsewhere, the lateral nerves in 4-6 pairs, indis- tinct, the tertiary nerves and veins forming an indistinct reticulum. Male flowers subsessile in (1-)3(-5)-flowered, shortly pedunculate cymules; calyx to 0.6 cm long, tomentellous outside and inside, the lobes 3, with valvate or open deltate aestivation, as long as the tube; corolla ca. 1.2 cm long, narrowly urceolate, densely strigose outside except for the margins of the lobes, the lobes 3, deltate, 0.3 cm long, 0.15 cm wide; stamens ca. 9, to 0.5 cm long, attached to the base of corolla tube, included, glabrous, the connective long-apiculate; pistillode 0.1 cm long, 0.1 cm wide, densely setulose. Female flowers solitary, in the axils of leaves or of reduced leaves towards the base of current year's growth; pedicel 0.1-0.4 cm long; calyx similar to that in the male flower but to 0.9 cm long and the lobes valvate-reduplicate in young flower; corolla ca. 1.5 cm long, other- wise as in the male flower; staminodes 6, ca. 0.3 cm long, glabrous, attached to the corolla tube, 3 opposite to and 3 alternating with the lobes; ovary 0.3 cm long, 0.2 cm wide ovoid-conoidal, strigillose-tomentellous, the style 0.15 cm long, stout, undivided, ending in 3, fleshy, bi-lobed stigmas, the locules 6, uniovulate. Fruit ca. 3 cm long, 3 cm wide, orange yellow, glabrous, globose; seeds 6, or fewer by abortion, 1.4 cm long, 0.7 cm wide, 0.5 cm thick, reddish brown; endosperm smooth; fruiting calyx accrescent, to 1.5 cm long, cup shaped, shallowly lobed, sparsely puberulous outside, tomentellous inside.
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Habit
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Shrub or tree
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Distribution
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widely distributed in Central America from Mexico (Sinaloa) to Panama.
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Note
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It occurs in a wide range of forest types up to 1,000 m, varying from swamp forest to scrub forest on dry rocky slopes. The fruit frequently is not the unit of dispersal, but the seeds are often removed singly, possibly by birds, while the fruit is still on the tree.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Farfan Beach, Dwyer & Hayden 7525 (F, COL, MO, SCZ, UC); Tyson 1819 (MO). DARIEN: Cativo swamp, Rio Chucanuque, about half an hour below Morti, Duke 11739a (MO).
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