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(Last Modified On 5/8/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/8/2013)
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Genus
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Weigeltia A. DC.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Trans. Linn. Soc. London 17: 102. 1834.
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Synonym
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Weigeltia Reichb., Consp. Regni Veg. 155. 1828 (nomen, Leguminosae), fide Index Kewensis. Comomyrsine Hook. f., Gen. P1. 2: 643. 1876.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees, dioecious, glabrous or slightly and minutely lepidote (apparently rarely puberulent). Leaves petiolate, often large, usually remote, sometimes exceptionally crowded at the apex of the thick branches and pseudoverticillate, either entire or serrate. Flowers pedicellate in axillary ordinarily more or less pendent panicles, (3- ) 4 ( -5) -merous and unisexual; sepals and petals both usually imbricate, rarely dextrally convolute and connate basally or sometimes to the middle; filaments always well-developed, the anthers never longer than broad, ovate or suborbicular, rarely acutish, longi-
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Habit
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Shrubs or small trees
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Description
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tudinally dehiscent; ovary ovoid, usually glabrous, the ovules few, uniseriate, the stigma of the obvious style often lobed. Fruit globose, crustaceous, 1-seeded.
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Distribution
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A genus with some 40 dioecious species in tropical America, ranging from Costa Rica and the West Indies through tropical South America. Only the two following have been recorded from Central America.
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Key
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a. Staminate inflorescences paniculate, many-flowered, congested, equaling or subequal- ing the petioles, subsessile; flowers 4(-5)-merous; petals of the staminate flowers puberulent on both surfaces, punctate with occasional glands ..... 1. W. panamensis aa. Staminate inflorescences open, few-flowered, narrowly paniculate, to 25 cm long, long- pedunculate; flowers 3-merous; petals of the staminate flowers glabrous on the inner surface, densely black-punctate ..... 2. W. spectabilis
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