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(Last Modified On 11/14/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/14/2012)
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Species
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LICANIA HYPOLEUCA Benth.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Voy. Sulphur, 91, P1. 32. 1844.
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Description
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Tree 10-15 m. tall, with a trunk-diameter of 10-40 cm., the ovate or lanceolate pointed leaves whitened beneath, the branchlets slender (1-2 mm. thick at the base of the inflorescences), nearly black, glabrate (in the juvenile state densely sordid- puberulent). Leaves ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, the upper surface lustrous and glabrous but the veins and veinlets in fully mature leaves marked with lines of tiny closely set papillae, the lower surface (appearing glaucous to the unaided eye because of the fineness of the tomentose layer) whitened with a dense appressed tomentum, the main lateral veins densely puberulent or thinly tomentose, arcuate, 6-8 pairs, prominent beneath, inconspicuous above (in dried material); blades acute to acumi- nate at tips, acute to rounded at base, 5-12 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, usually about 2-2.7 times as long as wide; petioles stout, about 1 mm. in diameter and 4-7 mm. long, densely short-hairy, the hairs on the upper side extending 2-4 mm. in a nar- row inverted V onto the base of the blade; stipules subulate, 1-3 mm. long, subper-
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Habit
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Tree
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Description
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sistent, erect and parallel to the branchlets. Flowers (said to be white) very small, numerous in leafy, terminal, mostly pyramidal panicles 10-20 cm. long; lower (axillary) branches of the panicle widely divergent, often 6-15 cm. long, most of the flowers borne in racemoid arrangement along secondary branches in 2- to 5-flowered cymules on peduncles 2-5 mm. long; terminal flowers of the cymules often pedicellate 1-3 mm., the lateral ones usually nearly sessile; corolla none; anther-bearing stamens usually 3 (opposite 3 adjoining calyx-lobes), less than 1 mm. long, the filaments subulate, dilated at base and hirsute about the zone of insertion, the anthers about half as long as the filaments; hypanthium campanulate or turbinate, about 1.5-2 mm. long and wide in anthesis, often contracted slightly at mouth, surmounted by the 5 ovate-acute, entire calyx-lobes which are spreading at tips, about 1 mm. long and wide; receptacle thickly hairy within, with a prom- inent fringe of hairs at the somewhat thickened margin, which in addition often bears short sterile filaments alternating with the calyx-lobes, and less often bears very short vestigial filaments elsewhere; ovary sessile at the bottom of the hypan- thium, ovoid-globose, less than 1 mm. long, white-hirsute; style erect (in the flower opposite the stamens and so alternating with the stamenless calyx-lobes), about 2 mm. long, subulate, hirsute except for the slender tip 0.2-0.3 mm. long; developing ovary elongating at base and becoming stipitate at maturity. Fruit pyriform, red, thinly pubescent at least at base, about 1 cm. thick and 2 cm. long (including the attenuate base).
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Distribution
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Tabasco and British Honduras to Panama, lowland, in wet or moist forests; Colombia?
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Note
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The TYPE of this species came from "Veragua", according to Bentham's original description; in Seemann's "Flora of the Isthmus of Panama", published a decade after Bentham's description, the locality was given as "Province of Vera- guas", the implication being that no more definite locality could be given. At this period Veraguas included all of what is now the Province of Chiriqui, so the type-locality of this species may have been almost anywhere along the Pacific Coast of western Panama. The species is reported by Standley (Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 27:189. 1928) from Barro Colorado Island, with the notation that this is the only locality at which it is known to occur in the Canal Zone.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Standley 3I323, 3I416, 41067. DARIEN: La Palma, Pittier 549I.
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