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(Last Modified On 1/28/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/28/2013)
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Species
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GUAPIRA costaricana (Standl.) Woodson
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Synonym
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Tarrubia costaricana Standl. in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13:385. 191 1.
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Description
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Small dioecious trees to 10 m. tall. Branches moderately stout, glabrous, prominently lenticellate at maturity. Leaves rather crowded, petiolate, the blade predominantly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acuminate, obtuse at the base, 2.5-10.0 cm. long, 1.5-4.5 cm. broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous, the petiole 0.5-1.0 cm. long. Inflorescences 3-6 cm. long, rather shortly pedunculate, many-flowered, minutely puberulent, conspicuously accrescent in fruit, the flowers sessile. Staminate peri- anth campanulate, about 3 mm. long, about 0.5 mm. in diameter at the base and 2 mm. at the orifice, minutely puberulent, greenish white or yellow, the stamens about half exserted. Pistillate flowers tubular-campanulate, the limb slightly spreading, about 2 mmn. long and 0.5 mm. in diameter, minutely puberulent- papillate. Anthocarps globose or subglobose, about 7-8 mm. long, black or purple when ripe.
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Habit
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trees
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama, in forests and savannas, sea level to 1000 m.
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Elevation
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sea level to 1000 m.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Boqucte, Davidson 689; David, Pittier 3370. COCLE: Valle de Anton, Bro. Maurice 777; north rim of El Valle, Alston dJ Allen i847; region north of El Valle de Anton, trail to Las Minas, Allen 2472.
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Note
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Brother Maurice reports the vernacular names of lanto and imala so-mbra. Guapira costaricana is widely distributed also on the Pacific slope of Costa Rica. In both countries the leaves of plants growing at higher elevations seem broader and more elliptic than those of lower elevations. The fruit, however, is relatively constant.
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