Tropicos | Name - Talauma sambuensis Pittier

Talauma sambuensis Pittier

Flora Data (Last Modified On 2/7/2013)

Species	TALAUMA SAMBUENSIS Pittier
PlaceOfPublication	Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 20: 105. 1918.
Description	Tree up to 40 m. tall; branchlets glabrous. Leaf lamina obovate- to elliptic- or ovate-oblong, cuneate to obtuse at the base, bluntly acuminate to subacute or apic- ulate at the apex, up to about 27 cm. long and 12.5 cm. broad, coriaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves about 10-14 on each side of the midrib; petiole sometimes up to about 6 cm. long, glabrous; stipules glabrous. Flower-bud ovoid; bracts and peduncle glabrous. Tepals white. Fruit (according to Pittier) subglobose, about 8 cm. long and 7.5 cm. broad.
Habit	Tree
Distribution	Endemic to southeastern Panama,
Native	Panama
Elevation	up to 240 m.
Specimen	DARIEN: Rio Cuasi, Chepigana District, alt. 240 m., Terry & Terry 1420; Boca de Paua- rand6, on Rio Sambui, alt. 20 m., Pittier 5681.
Note	The available material of this species is too scanty for its characters to be fully described and understood. Its leaves are somewhat differently shaped at the apex and more closely reticulate than in T. gloriensis, which occurs further to the west and at a higher altitude.