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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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Species
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GUATTERIA INUNCTA R. E. Fries
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PlaceOfPublication
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Acta Hort. Berg. 12: 378. 1939.
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Synonym
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Guatteria Ouregou Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 7.1860, pro parte quoad specimen a St. Thomas citatum, non Dunal.
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Description
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A shrub or tree up to 8-10 m. high, young branchlets at first shortly ferrugi- nous-sericeous. Leaves on petioles 5-8 mm. long, chartaceous, pale green and soon quite glabrous above, under side olivaceous and densely appressed-hirsute at first, finally nearly glabrous, elliptic to, oblong-elliptic, broadest at the middle, acute and a little decurrent at the base, rather gradually tapering to the blunt apex, 15-28 cm. long and 6-12 cm. broad. Flowers 1-2; pedicels very thin but rigid, 1.5-2.0 cm. long. Sepals rotundate-ovate, ferruginous-sericeous outside, glabrous inside, 4-5 mm. long. Petals oblong and rotundate-truncate at the apex, ferruginous-sericeous outside, 10-15 mm. long, 5-8 mm. broad. Stamens 1.3-1.5 mm. long. Monocarps ellipsoidic, very shortly apiculate at the apex, acute at the base, about 7 mm. long and 4 mm. across; stipes thin, about 7 mm. long.
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Habit
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shrub or tree
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama. BOCAS DEL TORO: vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, Water Valley, Von Wedel 1460, 1716; Old Bank Island, Isla Colon, alt. 0-120 m., Von Wedel 1932.
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