Perebea angustifolia (Poepp. & Endl.) C.C.Berg

  • Authority

    Berg, Cornelius C. 2001. Moreae, Artocarpeae, and (Moraceae): With introductions to the family and and with additions and corrections to Flora Neotropica Monograph 7. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 83: 1-346. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Moraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Perebea angustifolia (Poepp. & Endl.) C.C.Berg

  • Discussion

    Individuals of this species start to flower as shrubs of 1-3 m height, but may become trees to 20 m tall throughout the range of distribution, or occasionally to 35-40 m tall. The tertiary venation varies from ± clearly scalariform in relatively large and broad laminas to (almost) reticulate in relatively small and narrow laminas. The inflorescence-bearing short-shoots remain short, 1-2 mm long. Two forms can be distinguished: the most widespread and common form with rather sparse appressed indumentum on the leafy twigs, lower lamina surface, and fruiting perianth, and a less common form (represented by Ceron et al 3863, Gudiño 318, and Palacios 2004) which is densely (sub)tomentose to pubescent on the parts mentioned.

  • Distribution

    From Costa Rica to western Ecuador, to northwestern Venezuela (Zulia) and to Amazonian Brazil (Acre) and Bolivia (Pando, La Paz); in non-inundated forest; at low elevations.

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