Guarea caulobotrys Cuatrec.

  • Authority

    Pennington, Terence D. 1981. Meliaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 28: 1-359, 418-449, 459-470. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Meliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Guarea caulobotrys Cuatrec.

  • Type

    Type. Cuatrecasas 14103, Colombia, Dept, del Valle, Costa del Pacifico, R. Naya, fl (holotype, F).

  • Description

    Species Description - Leaves pinnate with a terminal bud, 34-40 cm long; petiole semiterete, rhachis terete, minutely appressed puberulous; petiolule 1-5 mm long. Leaflets 4 pairs, oblong, apex attenuate to obtusely cuspidate, base acute to obtuse, coriaceous, 28-35.5[33.7] cm long, 8.9-14.3[11.6] cm wide, upper surface with numerous small raised glands, lower surface uniformly sparsely puberulous to subglabrous, not glandular-punctate or -striate; venation eucamptodromous, midrib slightly sunken; secondaries 14-19 on either side of midrib, ascending, slightly arcuate, ± parallel; intersecondaries short, inconspicuous; tertiaries widely spaced, oblique, prominent below. Inflorescence cauliflorous, 9-25 cm long, racemose, puberulous; pedicel stout, ca. 1 mm long. Calyx cyathiform, ca. 2.5 mm long; calyx lobes 4, broadly ovate, obtuse, 0.5-1 mm long, sparsely appressed puberulous outside. Petals 4, valvate, 10 mm long (bud), 2.5 mm broad, oblong, apex acute, sericeous outside, glabrous inside. Staminal tube 8.5 mm long, 3.5 mm broad, with short emarginate lobes, glabrous; anthers 8, ca. 1.7 mm long. Nectary a stout stipe expanded below ovary, 2 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 4-locular, loculi with 2 superposed ovules, strigose; style stout, glabrous above. Capsule obovoid, shallowly but prominently 12-ribbed, rather rough, subglabrous, ca. 4 cm long, 4-valved, valves with 2 superposed seeds; pericarp ca. 3 mm thick. Seed ca. 1.51.8 cm long. Embryo with superposed cotyledons, radicle abaxial, extending to surface.

  • Discussion

    Relationships

    Distinguished from the other large-fruited Colombian species of Guarea by the fewer locules and the distinctive fruit. The minute raised glands on the upper leaflet surface are known elsewhere in only a few species (e.g. G. rhopalocarpa and G. macropetala).

  • Distribution

    Known only from two localities on the Pacific Coast of Colombia (Department del Valle), probably in rain forest.

    Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America|