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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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Species
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BROSIMUM TERRABANUM Pittier
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PlaceOfPublication
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Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18:69. 1914.
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Synonym
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Piratinera terrabana (Pittier) Lundell, in Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. 478:208. 1937, as to basinym, not as to specimens cited.
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Description
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Trees up to about 25 m. tall, the young branches moderately stout, reddish brown, indefinitely pilosulose to glabrate. Leaves broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, narrowly subcaudate-acuminate at the tip, broadly obtuse to rounded at the base, 10-25 cm. long, 3-9 cm. broad, with 18-22 pairs of prominent veins, subcoriaceous, glabrous, the petioles quite stout, about 1 cm. long; stipules almost fully amplex- icaul, about 1 cm. long, minutely pilosulose. Flowering heads apparently usually dioecious, subglobose, 4-6 mm. in diameter at anthesis, the peduncles very slender, two or three times longer than the heads. Staminate flowers with an indefinite vestigial perianth; stamen 1, the anther circular, centrally peltate, about 1 mm. in diameter, dehiscing circumscissilly. Fruit unknown.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama (doubtfully in Guatemala and El Salvador), in lowland forests.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Farm 8, region of Almirante, Cooper 44I.
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Note
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Lundell misapplied B. terrabanum to include two specimens from British Hon- duras, Gentle 1737 and Schipp 522, which, together with three others of the same collectors deposited in the herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden (Schipp 1360; Gentle 3307, 3440) appear to me probably to represent a northern extension of B. ojoche.
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