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(Last Modified On 1/10/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/10/2013)
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Species
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MICONIA CALVESCENS DC.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Prodr. 3:185. 1828.
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Description
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Small tree to 10 m. tall, the younger branches and base of the panicle some- what flattened, thinly cinereous with minute stellate hairs; petioles 3-6 cm. long; leaf-blades elliptic to obovate-oblong, 15-35 cm. long, half to two-thirds as wide, abruptly short-acuminate, entire or undulate, obtuse to broadly rounded at base, 3-nerved with an additional pair of marginal veins, pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, or with a few stellate hairs persistent along the veins beneath; panicles 1-3 dm. long, divaricately branched, thinly cinereous-tomentulose; flowers sessile in small lateral and terminal glomerules, 5-merous; hypanthium about 2 mm. long, thinly tomentulose; calyx-tube prolonged about 0.5 mm., sepals broadly triangular, about 0.3 mm. long; petals obovate, white, 2.5-3 mm. long; stamens nearly iso- morphic; anthers linear, 2-2.5 or 3-3.5 mm. long; connective very briefly pro- longed below the thecae into two deflexed lateral lobes; stigma capitate.
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Habit
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tree
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Distribution
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British Honduas to Panama, and southward to Bolivia and southern Brazil.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: Cana-Cuasi trail, Chepigana district, 600 m., Terry & Terry I492.
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