|
(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
|
|
|
|
(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
|
|
Species
|
VIROLA NOBILIS A. C. Smith
|
|
PlaceOfPublication
|
Brittonia 2: 490. 1937.
|
|
Description
|
Dioecious trees to! 65 m., the younger branchlets sparsely puberulent with canescent hairs, glabrescent. Leaves glabrous above, with fugaceous canescent sessile- stellate hairs below, coriaceous, narrowly oblong, apically short-acuminate, basally acute to attenuate, 9-16 cm. long, 2.3-4 cm. broad, the secondary veins 25-30 per side, the tertiary veins rather obscure; petioles canaliculate, puberulent, 5-10 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad. Staminate fascicles in panicles up to 4 cm. long, the bracts deciduous, 3-5 mm. long; anthers 3, ca. 0.8 mm. long, connate to apex, the infra- antheral portion of the androecium 0.1-0.3 mm. long. Pistillate flowers in clusters of 3-several in racemes up to 5 cm. long, the connate tepals densely puberulent with much-branched hairs; ovary 1-carpellate, with a subsessile obscurely 2-cleft stigma. Mature fruits 3-8 per inflorescence; pedicels 6-9 mm. long; pericarp densely puberulent, ultimately dehiscing longitudinally into 2 valves, short-stipitate, ellip- soid, 19-32 mm. long, 14-22 mm. broad; aril laciniate, the seed ellipsoid.
|
|
Habit
|
trees
|
|
Distribution
|
Known only from the Canal Zone and adjacent Panama.
|
|
Native
|
Panama
|
|
Specimen
|
CANAL ZONE: back of clearing at laboratory, Barro Colorado Island, Wetmore, Abbe & Shattuck 155; hills north of Frijoles, Standley 27507; Barro Colorado Island Aviles 29; clearing, Barro Colorado Island, Shattuck 694; Barro Colorado Island, Carpenter 43. PANAMA: Cerro Azul, Dwyer 1530.
|
|
Tag
|
|
|
|
Project Name
|
|
Tag
|
|
|
|