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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 3/7/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 3/7/2013)
Species CARAPA NICARAGUENSIS C. DC.
PlaceOfPublication Monogr. Phaner. 1: 717. 1878.-Fig. 3.
Synonym Granatum nicaraguense (C. DC.) 0. Ktze., Rev. Gen. P1. 1: 110. 1891. Carapa Slateri Standley, Trop. Woods 10: 48. 1927.
Description Tree, medium to large, up to 30 m. tall. Leaves pari- or impari-pinnate, 32-66 cm. long, the rachis lenticellate and terminated by a glandular, tomentose projec- tion in the absence of a terminal leaflet; leaflets 4-6 (-7) pairs, oblanceolate, the base cuneate to rounded, the apex broadly acute to rounded or retuse with a small, tomentose mucro, 8.5-48 cm. long, 4.5-15 cm. wide, the veins brown-tomentose, the blades scattered tomentose above and below. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate, tomentose; bracts and bracteoles persistent, tomentose. Flowers subsessile or pedi- cellate, white, aromatic, 0.7-4 mm. long, 4-merous; sepals suborbicular to ovate, tomentose or glabrate; petals dotted with 1-2 glands on the outside; staminal tube urceolate, 8-toothed, the teeth truncate-emarginate, or broadly bifid; anthers 8; disk fleshy; ovary 4-angulate, 4-celled; ovules 2 per cell. Fruit cylindrical, to 16 cm. long, 4-valved; seeds yellow-ochre, rarely brown with whitish specks.
Habit Tree
Distribution Lowland forest from Nicaragua to Ecuador.
Specimen BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Almirante region, Cooper & Slater 59, 59a; vicinity of Guabito between Changuinola River and Simaola River, Stern & Chambers 116; Comarca del Barui, Puerto Armuelles between Canazo and Cocos, Cooper & Slater 282. CANAL ZONE: 2 miles south of Fort Sherman, Johnston 1824. DARIEN: Punta Guayabo Chiquita, Stern & Chambers 166; along Rio Tuira below El Real and Piriaque Island, Stern, Chambers, Dwyer & Ebinger 969.
 
 
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