|
(Last Modified On 3/18/2013)
|
|
|
|
(Last Modified On 3/18/2013)
|
|
Species
|
Garcia nutans Vahl in Rohr
|
|
PlaceOfPublication
|
Skriv. Naturh. Selsk. Kjbbenh. 2: 217, t. 9, 1792.-Fig. 6.
|
|
Description
|
Shrub or tree to 15 m high; twigs hispidulous to tomentulose. Leaves chartace- ous to subcoriaceous; petioles 1-5 cm long; stipules absent; blades oblong to elliptic, abruptly acuminate to obtuse at the tip, obtuse to rounded at the base, mostly 8-19 cm long, 2.5-7 cm broad, sparsely to densely pilose beneath, the margins entire. Staminate flowers with hispidulous to densely pilose pedicels ca 1-3.5 cm long; calyx 6-13.5 cm long, tomentulose without; petals 6-13, linear to oblong-elliptic, pinkish to dark red, more or less hirsute, 10-17 mm long; disc-segments numerous, up to 1.5 mm high, scattered over the pilose receptacle; stamens ca 60-150, the filaments mostly glabrous, ca 2.5-6 mm long, the anthers apiculate, 0.7-1 mm long. Pistillate flowers with tomentulose pedicels 1-3 cm long; perianth similar to the c; disc lobed, ca 2 mm high; ovary densely sericeous, the styles thick, 1.5-2 mm long, the stigmas fleshy, reddish to nearly black. Capsules 3-lobed, 3-seeded, 2-2.5 cm high, 3-4 cm in diam, sericeous; seeds globose, to 17 mm in diam.
|
|
Habit
|
Shrub or tree
|
|
Distribution
|
According to Lundell, the species is native to eastern Mexico (San Luis Potosi to Chiapas), and other records represent escaped or cultivated plants. However, McVaugh (Brittonia 13: 187, 1961) has reported a wild population from Jalisco, and the Panamanian collection cited below would also appear to represent a native plant.
|
|
Distribution
|
The species may prove to be indigenous over a wide area from southern Mexico to Colombia.
|
|
Specimen
|
LOS SANTOS: scraps of forest betw Tonosi and GuAnico, Stern et al. 1872 (MO).
|
|
Tag
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Tag
|
|
|
|