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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 WOODSONIANA C. K. Allen
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Arnold Arb. 26:3 80. 1945.
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Description
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Tree 7-15 m. high; branchlets shortly appressed fulvous-tomentellous, becom- ing glabrescent, brunnescent, finally angled, striate, glabrous, gray. Leaves alternate; petioles more or less blackish, canaliculate, pubescent or glabrescent, to 1.5 (-2) mm. long; blades glabrescent or glabrous, except for axillary glands, in the dried state gray-green, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, to 24 cm. long and 8 cm. broad, the base cuneate, the apex obtuse, acute or acuminate, penninerved, the costa conspicuous above and slightly impressed, beneath elevated, the nerves 7 or 8 (-10) pairs, slightly elevated above, strongly beneath, diverging from the costa at an angle of about 35-450, the reticulation conspicuously elevated throughout. Inflorescence axillary or subterminal, paniculate, to 20 cm. long, densely and appressed gray-pubescent becoming glabrescent, many-flowered, the peduncle to 10 cm. long. Flowers to 3 mm. long, the pedicels 2-3 mm. long, pubescent, the perianth white, the lobes thick, fleshy, papillose within, pubescent without, elliptic or ovate or narrowly obovate, to 2.5 mm. long; stamens of ser. I & II 0.6-0.8 mm. long, the anthers subreniform, twice the length of the stout filaments; those of ser. III 0.9-1.25 mm. long, the anthers quadrate, equaling the filaments; staminodia ovate, obtuse or subtriquetrous, 0.5 mm. long, the stout stipe nearly one-half the entire length; gynaecium glabrous, to 1.7 mm. long, the ovary ovoid, equaling three-quarters the entire length, the style short, the stigma triangular-discoid, conspicuous. Fruit reddish black in the dried state, ellipsoid, to 16 X 11 mm., -the subtending cupule shallow, discoid, ligneous, glabrous or glabrescent, rugulose, to 2 mm. long, 5-6 mm. in diameter, and 1 mm. deep, the enlarged pedicel striate, glabrescent, to 2 mm. long.
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Habit
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Tree
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Note
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El Salvador, Costa Rica, at 1800 meters altitude, south at successively lower altitudes, finally occurring in Central Panama as low as 20 to 90 meters.
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Distribution
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El Salvador, Costa Rica
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Elevation
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at 1800 meters
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Mamei Hill, Pittier 3803; vicinity of Salamanca Hydrographic Station, TRio Pequeni, Woodson, Allen d Seibert i620. DARIiEN: Rio Chico, vicinity of Yaviza, Allen 485o.
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Note
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The species at once attracts attention because of the gray-green foliage and long grayish-pubescent inflorescence. Similar to Nectandra martinicensis from -the West Indies, but the leaf-blades of the latter are smaller, and the margins re- curved. Floral differences are apparent also.
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