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Published In: Tropical Woods 109: 95. 1958. (Trop. Woods) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/3/2009)
Acceptance : Accepted
Conservation Calculations     (Last Modified On 6/3/2009)
Ecological Value: 5.00000
Num Project Specimens: 27
Newest Specimen Year: 2022
Oldest Specimen Year: 1946
Conservation Value: 136.90000
Conservation Abbrev: LC

 

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Colubrina elliptica (Sw.) Brizicky & W.L. Stern, Trop. Woods 109: 95. 1958; Rhamnus elliptica Sw.; C. reclinata (L'Hér.) Brongn.; C. hondurensis A. Molina R.

Trees or shrubs, 2--15 m, bark sometimes described as smooth, exfoliating in plates and stripes, unarmed; young branches ferruginous-tomentose, or less frequently pilose, rarely pale, nearly always rapidly glabrescent, bud scales present, bud scale remnants and/or scars at bases of branches present. Leaves alternate, infrequently fasciculate on short shoots; blades 4—12.7 x 2—6.2 cm, elliptic, broadly elliptic or lanceolate (rarely oblanceolate), membranaceous or firmly membranaceous, adaxial surface drying dark brown, brown-green to green, abaxial surface drying brown-green to green, 6--9 (10) pairs of lateral veins, adaxial surface glabrous or less frequently with few pale trichomes on main veins, abaxial surface dense to sparse ferruginous or tawny, tomentose or pilose or with few appressed trichomes, glabrescent, glands absent from actual surface of leaf (rarely less than 0.1 mm internal to margin on abaxial surface), base cuneate, cuneate-decurrent, obtuse, or rounded, margin entire and usually most on a specimen with glands, glands (0) 1—3 per side, the most proximal at the junction of blade and petiole to 4 mm from junction less frequently to 25 mm from junction, most often only at junction on one side, the most distal gland to ½ distance from base of leaf, glands elliptical with axis along leaf margin with swollen margins and depressed centers, apex acuminate, long acuminate, or obtuse or acute, and sometimes cuspidate, tip occasionally retuse or with midrib extending to form small mucro; stipules caducous to usually persistent in southern part of range, 1—3.5 x 0.5—1 mm, lanceolate-acuminate; petiole (6)—15 (22) mm, glands at junction of petiole and blade often present, at least on one side. Inflorescence axillary compound, corymbose to divaricate cyme, solitary in leaf axil, 0.4—2 x 0.5—2 cm, ferruginous-tomentose or less frequently with paler appressed trichomes, bracteoles caducous at or shortly after anthesis, peduncle 0.5—4 (10) mm. Flowers on pedicels 2—5 (9) x 0.2—0.5 mm, in fruit (6) 7—10 x 0.3—0.6 mm; hypanthium 0.5—1 (1.5) x 1.2—2.5 mm. Sepals 1—1.5 (1.8) mm. At anthesis disc nearly filling the mouth of the hypanthium and totally hiding the inferior ovary, glabrous. Mature fruit (5.5) 6—9 mm, dull orange or red-brown basal 1/5—1/3 concealed by hypanthium 1--3 mm, epicarp and mesocarp breaking regularly with and initially adhering to endocarp, later separating, columnella absent. Seeds 3.5--5 mm, broadly elliptic or obovoid, dark chestnut-brown to black, seeds not retained on receptacle after fruit breaks away, aril rarely retained on seed.  

Común en bosques deciduos a subhúmedos, zonas norcentral y pacífica; 200--800 m; fl may–sep, fr dic--feb; Neill 1196, Stevens 20291; Estados Unidos (sur de Florida), México a Costa Rica, norte de Venezuela y en las Antillas.

 


 

 
 
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