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(Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
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Species
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Borojoa panamensis Dwyer
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PlaceOfPublication
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Phytologia 17: 446. 1968.
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Note
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TYPE: Panamai, Duke & Lallathin 15014 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Small trees, the branchlets subterete, somewhat rimose, ultimately angular, presumably glabrous, the nodes to 9 cm apart, the scars of the petiole prominent, subrotund, ca. 0.4 cm in diam. Leaves elliptic rotund, to 19 cm long, to 12.5 cm wide, widely deltoid at apex, short acuminate, cuneate and subequilateral at base, the lateral veins ca. 7, arcuate, stiffly chartaceous, the lamina glabrescent, the costa with many minute golden hairs and the axils of the lateral veins golden barbate; petioles to 2 cm long, to 0.2 cm wide in middle; superior stipules per- sistent, connate to the middle, the sheath cylindrical, to 1 cm long, the triangular basal prominence to 6 mm long, ca. 0.5 cm wide, at maturity torn and reflexed, the free portions obovate rotund to elliptic, to 2 cm long, to 1 cm wide, acuminate, often wider above middle, thin coriaceous, dark brown, with many small veins and with a median keel. Flowers not seen. Fruits terminal, sessile, solitary, rotund, to 4.5 cm in diam., glabrous, minutely rugulose, the persistent calycine cup like a volcano's crater, to 0.5 cm long, the orifice ca. 0.4 cm wide.
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Habit
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trees
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Distribution
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known only from the type locality in Panama.
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Note
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Duke & Lallathin note on their collection that the fruits are "green, probably edible when ripe. Fruit, when sawed into, blackening as if possessed of genipine."
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Specimen
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COCLE: Cerro Pil6n near El Valle, ca. 2500 ft, Duke & Lallathin 15014 (MO); Lallathin 5014 (MO).
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