Tropicos | Name - Ouratea patelliformis Dwyer

Ouratea patelliformis Dwyer

Flora Data (Last Modified On 3/13/2013)

Species	Ouratea patelliformis Dwyer
PlaceOfPublication	Phytologia 14: 440, 1967.
Description	Trees up to 6 m; branches terete, smooth, glabrous. Leaves well-spaced, with the petioles up to 0.8 cm long, somewhat thickened; blades narrowly elliptic, 15-20 cm long, 5-7 cm wide, cuneate toward the apex, acuminate and ultimately acute, obtuse or subcuneate at the base, thin-coriaceous, lustrous, smooth, glabrous, with the costa prominulous above, often plane toward the petiole, somewhat prominent beneath, the lateral veins ca 20, somewhat evanescent, widely arcuate, often the basal ones more sharply ascending, with the margins doubly serrate above the middle, or occasionally along the whole length, with the longer tooth more patu- lous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, narrowly racemiform-paniculate, 11-18 cm long, the rachises slender, rubescent, ca 2 mm wide, twisted and plano-com- pressed, the branches few, 0.4-4.5 cm long, the bostryces solitary or paired, the lower and middle ones 3-5-flowered, the articulation-stalks up to 0.3 cm long, the pedicels ca 7 mm long. Flowers not seen. Fruits with the receptacle patelli- form, ca 4 mm long, 6-10 mm wide, the scars of the druplets centrally located on the upper side of the torus, circular, ca 2 mm wide, obviously depressed.
Habit	Trees
Distribution	Known only from type collection.
Specimen	CANAL ZONE: Pacora, Allen 3445 (MO).