Tropicos | Name - Eschweilera pittieri R. Knuth

Eschweilera pittieri R. Knuth

Flora Data (Last Modified On 12/18/2012)

Species	ESCHWEILERA PITTIERI R. Knuth
PlaceOfPublication	Engl. Pflanzenr. 4219a:93. 1939.
Synonym	Eschweilera verruculosa Pittier, in Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26:13. pI. I2. 1927, non Miers.
Description	Trees up to 20 m. tall, the leafy twigs relatively slender. Leaves shortly peti- olate, elliptic-oblong, abruptly and rather shortly and acutely acuminate, broadly obtuse or rounded at the base, 12-30 cm. long, 6-12 cm. broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous; petiole rather stout, 1.0-1.5 cm. long. Inflorescence racemose, several- to many-flowered, much shorter than the subtending leaves, the peduncle stout and glabrous. Flowers relatively large, about 3.0-3.5 cm. in diameter; calyx lobes ovate, obtuse, approximately 1 cm. long; petals yellow or white, obovate-oblong, more or less unequal, about 2 cm. long. Fruits very thickly woody, the pericarp about 1 cm. thick or more, conspicuously brown-verruculose, particularly in the calycine zone, depressed-globose, about 2.5-5.0 cm. long and 3.5-6.0 cm. broad, the calyx lobes adnate to about midway of the pyx and becoming very prominently woody, the operculum conspicuously domed and nearly hemispheric, almost half as deep as the body of the pyx.
Habit	Trees
Distribution	Lowland forests, Pacific slope of Panama.
Specimen	CHIRIQUI: vicinity of San Felix, Pittier 5290, 5738; Rio Tinta, along main highway, Woodson, Seibert d Allen 402; San Felix to Cerro Flor, Allen I920; vicinity of Remedios, Allen 3476.