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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
Species POUROUMA SCOBINA R. Ben.
PlaceOfPublication Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 28:320. 1922.
Description Trees to about 30 m. tall, the branches stout, hollow, appressed-sericeous to glabrate. Leaves at maturity deeply 3-lobed, broadly cordate, about 10-25 cm. long and broad, the lobes divided about two-thirds to the petiole, the median lobe definitely constricted at the base, scaberulous above, pale and densely papillate beneath and appressed-sericeous along the veins, the petiole 20-30 cm. long, densely appressed-sericeous; stipules narrowly lanceolate, about 8-10 cm. long, densely ap- pressed-sericeous. Peduncles paired at the nodes, slightly shorter than the subtend- ing petioles, densely appressed-sericeous below, rubiginous-papillate above. Neither staminate nor pistillate flowers known from Panama. Fruits broadly compressed- ovoid, about 1.5 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, minutely puberulent.
Habit Tree
Distribution Guatemala to the Guianas, in forests of intermediate elevations.
Specimen COCLE: north of El Valle de Antbn, Allen 3742. DARIEN: Cana, Williams 983.
Note Closely related to P. palmata Poeppig & Endl., in which the leaf base is typically truncate.
 
 
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