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(Last Modified On 3/13/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/13/2013)
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Species
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Ouratea curvata (St.-Hil.) Engler ex Dwyer
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PlaceOfPublication
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Lloydia 7: 128, 1944.
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Synonym
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Gomphia curvata St.-Hil., Fl. Bras. Merid. 1: 69, 1825. Ouratea crassinervia Engler in Mart., Fl. Bras. 12(2): 337, 1876. 0uratea costaricensis Standley, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 18: 694, 1937.
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Description
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Shrubs or occasionally small trees; ultimate branches terete, usually rough with persistent stipules or petioles. Leaves subsessile, fasciculate, strongly ascending; petioles up to 1 cm long; leaf blades spatulate, 35-50 cm long, 6.5-12 cm wide, deltoid toward the apex, not acuminate, tapering narrowly toward the base, auriculate at the base, the lamina thinly coriaceous, glabrous, the lateral veins ca 25, prominulous (or occasionally seemingly immersed), the veins of the middle of the lamina arcuate, the lowermost 2 or 3 veins strongly ascending, the margin serrulate above the middle or along the upper 2/3, each tooth receiving a small vein from a larger vein paralleling the margin and located a few mm from the margin; stipules fasciculate, strongly ascending, deltoid, up to 1.5 cm long, acute. Inflores- cences either solitary and terminal or with several axillary rachises below the terminal one, measuring 1/3-22 the length of the uppermost leaves, the rachis terete, 0.2-0.3 cm long, rather stout in the fruit, drying dull red-brown, glabrous, the bostryces disposed above the middle, usually few, well-spaced for 1-2 cm, the secondary branches ca 0.5 cm long, the flowers up to 3 per bostryx, the pedicels slender, up to 0.8 cm long, ca 0.4-1 mm wide; bracts scattered, occasionally per- sistent along the lower half of the rachis, narrowly ovate, up to 0.8 cm long; flower buds ovate, up to 0.8 cm long, shortly acuminate at the apex. Flowers with petals up to 10 mm long, slightly longer than the sepals. Fruits with the pedicels up to 1 cm long; receptacles obpyriform, 1-1.5 cm long, 0.6-1 cm wide, obtuse or truncate above, the drupes elliptic, 0.7-1 cm long, 0.5-0.7 cm wide.
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Habit
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Shrubs trees
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, Panama, and Brazil.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Water Valley, Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 1437 (MO), 1648 (MO); Isla de Colon, Woodson et al. 1948 (F, MO); s. loc., von Wedel 314 (MO).
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Note
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The inflorescence of 0. curvata has a distinct red coloration in the fresh condi- tion; the receptacle of the fruit is bright red with the drupes shiny black.
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