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(Last Modified On 7/2/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/2/2013)
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Species
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Leretia cordata Vell.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fl. Flum. 99. 1825.
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Note
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TYPE: Brazil, Vellozo
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Synonym
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Leretia vellozii Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 9: 392. 1852, nom. illeg. Leretia nitida Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 4: 365. 1859. TYPE: Brazil, Spruce 1528 (K). Mappia poeppigiana Baillon, Adansonia 11: 175. 1874. TYPE: Peru, Poeppig 2339 (P). Leretia poeppigiana (Baillon) Sleumer, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 245. 1940. Leretia glabrata Sleumer, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 245. 1940. TYPE: Brazil, Ducke 29028 (B, not seen).
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Description
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Lianas or small trees with scrambling branches; branches short-strigose pubes- cent, becoming glabrate, the old branches with dark brown corky bark. Leaves with petioles stout, commonly twisted, 0.8-1.5 cm long, densely chestnut brown strigose pubescent, corky at maturity; blades ovate-lanceolate to oblong or el- liptic, 10-19 cm rarely to 30 cm long, 4-12 cm broad, the apex acute with the apiculate point rounded or obtuse, the base acute or rounded, the upper surface sparsely white pilose-pubescent, soon becoming glabrate, the lower surface with white or yellowish malpighiaceous hairs with almost equal arms, the primary veins 6-8 pairs, arcuate, anastomosing near the margin to form a complex retic- ulum. Inflorescences cymose, to 18 cm long and 10 cm diam., the bracts ovate, acute, strigose-pubescent. Flowers with the calyx patelliform, 2 mm diam., the lobes or teeth 0.5-0.8 mm high, densely golden strigose; petals white to cream colored, lanceolate-ovate or oblong, 4.8-5.5 mm long, 1.8-2 mm broad, densely hirsute outside, inside the midrib moderately well developed, long pilose or tomentose, the inflexed apices glabrous; stamens 3-4.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary 1.5 mm diam. at anthesis, the locule densely hirsute or tomentose inside, the func- tional style 1.5-2.5 mm long, the rudimentary styles rarely 0.3 mm long. Fruits' (not known from Panama), 3.44.5 cm long, 2-2.5 cm wide, 1.5-2 cm thick, the- base acute or tapering, the apex acute, densely hirsute when young, becoming- glabrate, the putamen papery, sparsely pubescent inside with long pilose hairs;. seed 1.
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Habit
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Lianas or small trees
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Note
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More material, especially of the fruit, is needed from Panama. Field ob-- servations are needed to determine the growing characteristics of this plant- variously described as a liana or a tree with scrambling branches. The variation in size and shape of the leaves is that commonly found in scrambling shoots.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Vie. Chiriqui Lagoon, Fish Creek Hills, von Wedel 2443 (GH, MO, NY, US). COLON: Gua'simo, Croat 9920 (MO). DARIEN: Rio Uruceca, Bristan 1433 (MO). Rio Pirre, 10 mi S of El Real near Dos Bocas, Foster & Lowenbach 2270 (Duke). Rio Pirre, near Pirre, Gentry & Clewell 6939 (A, MO). Quebrada Camachimuricate near Bartolo, Kennedy, 2853 (MO).
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