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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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NECTANDRA STANDLEY1 C. K. Allen
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Arnold Arb. 26:396. 1945.
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Description
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Tree 6-13 m. high; young branchlets minutely and densely fulvous- or sub- ferruginous-pubescent, angled, becoming glabrescent, striate, gray or blackish brown. Leaves alternate; petioles fairly stout, fulvous-tomentose, canaliculate, to 1.5 cm. long; blades minutely pubescent above, inconspicuously so beneath, cori- aceous, in the dried state brown, elliptic, to 16 (-22) cm. long and 4.5 (-7) cm. broad, obtuse or almost rounded at the base, recurved and seemingly cuneate at the extreme base, the apex attenuately acuminate or caudate-acuminate, penni- nerved, the costa and nerves impressed above and conspicuously elevated beneath, the nerves 4 (-8) pairs, diverging from the costa at an angle of 25-350 (lower- most pairs sometimes to 550), the reticulation obscure throughout. Inflorescence axillary or subterminal, paniculate, to 15 (-20) cm. long, fulvous- or gray- pubescent, many-flowered, the peduncle to 6 cm. long. Flowers to 3 mm. long, the pedicels pubescent, 2 mm. long, the perianth white, yellow, yellow-green or fulvous-flavescent according to the collector, campanulate, the lobes reflexed, fleshy, pubescent without, papillose within, elliptic, rounded, 1.7 (-2.15) mm. long; stamens of ser. I & II 0.6 mm. long, the anthers subreniform, subemarginate, subsessile; those of ser. III 1 mm. long, the anthers truncate, subemarginate, equal- ing the filaments, the glands laterally basal, conspicuous, subglobose, equaling the filaments; staminodia subovoid, 0.6 mm. long, the stipe nearly one-half the entire length; gynaecium glabrous, to 1.25 mm. long, the ovary ellipsoid, slightly longer than the style, the stigma conspicuous, subtriangular, discoid. Fruit green accord- ing to the collector, subglobose, 1 (-1.3) cm. in diameter, the subtending cupule campanulate, glabrous, verrucose, the margin irregularly and shallowly lobed, 5-6 mm. long, 12 mm. in diameter, and 3 mm. high, the pedicel stout, verrucose, to 8 mm. long and expanded to 4-5 mm. in diameter at the apex.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Costa Rica from 250 to 1700 meters, and Panama presumably at low altitudes.
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Elevation
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250 to 1700 meters
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Common
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Sigua
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Cricamola, near Almirante, Cooper 488; vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, Big Bight, von Wedel 2884; Isla Col6n, von Wedel 2967.
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Note
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Similar to Nectandra globosa and N. ramonensis in foliage characters, but dif- fering from the former in fewer pairs of lateral nerves and from the latter in larger leaf-blades, and from both species in its smaller flowers with anthers devoid of large papillose connective characteristic of the two above-mentioned species. The fruiting cupule of N. Standleyi is less shallow and the fruits tend to be subglobose.
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