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(Last Modified On 3/28/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/28/2013)
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Species
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Neosprucea sararensis Cuatr.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Trop. Woods 101: 21, 1955.
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Description
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Small tree (?), the branches glabrous. Leaves with the petioles to 15 mm long, canaliculate above, rounded beneath, short-strigose; blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, more or less rounded to attenuate (and somewhat oblique?) at the base, long-acuminate at the apex, remotely crenate along the maYrgins, the crenations distinctly glandular below, 14-20.5 cm long and 4.5-7.5 cm wide, char- taceous, distinctly 3-nerved from the base, sparsely short-strigose beneath especially along the prominent main nerves, the secondary nerves transversely subparallel and prominulous. Flowers light green, in short, axillary racemes, the (fruiting) pedicels to 12 mm long, terete, rather thick, articulated close to the base, densely and rather stiff-puberulous; sepals (surrounding the fruit) unequal, broadly ovate, apparently shortly united at the base, obtuse at the apex, 11-13 mm long and 9-13 mm wide, rather fleshy, tomentellous outside, glabrous inside in the middle but tomentellous towards the margins; petals (surrounding the fruit) ovate, obtuse, 11 mm long and 5-6 mm wide, rather fleshy, tomentellous outside, puberu- lous inside; stamens not seen; receptacle densely short-hirsute (the hairs ca 1 mm long). Fruit globose, longitudinally several-lobed, ca 1 cm in diam, apiculate (base of persistent style), the pericarp thin, brittle, blackish, glabrous, more or lessshiny, incompletely several-locular; seeds to 4.5 mm long, the testa brown, shiny, thin.
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Distribution
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Panama and Colombia.
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Specimen
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COCLE: El Valle de Anton at the foot of Cerro Pilon, cloud forest, alt ca 2000 ft, Dwyer & Correa 7997 (GH, MO, US); El Valle de-Anton & vie, alt 500-700 m, Seibert 465 (F, MO).
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Note
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In absence of flowering material, especially of stamens, it is impossible to name the above collection with certainty. In the key to the genus published by Cuatrecasas in 1955 (Trop. Woods 101: 24-25) it is closest to N. sararensis de- scribed from the Dept Norte de Santander, Colombia. This collection was deter- mined: N. grandiflora (Spruce) Sleumer by Williams in 1962 (Fieldiana: Bot. 29: 376). According to Cuatrecasas (loc. cit.), in N. grandiflora the leaves are glabrous, the flowers are sessile or subsessile, the calyx is ca 7 mm long, the fila- ments 2 mm long, and the anthers 5 mm long, while in N. sararensis the leaves are subglabrous beneath, the pedicels 12-14 mm long, the calyx 9-10 mm long, the filaments 3-4 mm long, and the anthers 2 mm long.
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