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(Last Modified On 11/12/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/12/2012)
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Species
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PERSEA SKUTCHI1 C. K. Allen
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Arnold Arb. 26:298. 1945.
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Description
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Spreading tree to 25 m. high; branchlets reddish, striate, pale appressed-fer- ruginous-tomentose becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate or subverticillate; petioles brown, slender, scarcely canaliculate, up to 3.5 cm. long; blades glabrous and pale green above, sparsely pubescent and pale brown or glabrous beneath, pergamenta- ceous, elliptic, 10-14 (-17) cm. long and 5 (-7.5) cm. broad, the base rounded or cuneate, often oblique, the apex obtuse, acute, or acuminate, often emarginate, the margin undulate, the lateral nerves up to 12 pairs, diverging from the costa at an angle of 55 (-650). Inflorescence of loose, axillary, fulvous-sericeous panicles up to 12 cm. long. Flowers to 6 mm. long, with slender pubescent pedi- cels nearly as long; perianth campanulate, pale yellow, lobes unequal, the outer 1.5 mm. long, the inner 5 mm. long; stamens of ser. I & II to 3.36 mm. long, the filaments almost twice the length of the anthers, the stamens of ser. III slightly longer, with stipitate -glands; staminodia conspicuous, pubescent, subcordate, to 2.7 mm. long, stipitate; gynaecium glabrous, 3.42 mm. long, the ovary ovoid, slightly constricted at the base, shorter than the style, the stigma conspicuously triangular-peltate. Fruit black, shining, glabrous, globose, inconspicuously apicu- late, about 7 mm. in diameter, the pedicel sparsely pubescent, somewhat thickened at the apex to nearly 2 mm. in diameter, and crowned with the remnants of the more or less reflexed perianth-lobes measuring about 6 mm. in diameter.
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Distribution
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Native to Costa Rica and Panama
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Elevation
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300 to 1675 m
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Specimen
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COCLE: vicinity of El Valle, south rim (dry), Alten 178I; hills south of El Valle de Ant6n, Allen 2498.
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Note
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Near Persea caerulea from South America, but may be distinguished by inflo- rescences that are shorter than the leaves, which are acute or subacuminate, with less erect lateral nerves, and by the blackish depressed-globose fruits not more than 8 mm. in diameter, with no conspicuous bloom.
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