Rapatea linearis Gleason

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1965. The Botany of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 1-285.

  • Family

    Rapateaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Rapatea linearis Gleason

  • Description

    Distribution and Ecology - Distribution. Known in the Atlantic Guiana area only from the Northwest District, British Guiana, and apparently of general occurrence but nowhere common in the rain-forest region of Vaupes in Colombia. Probably of wider distribution. BRITISH GUIANA. Northwest District: La Cruz 3913 (holotype NY) ; 4293. COLOMBIA. Vaupes: Justica, Luetzelburg 23766, 23768, 23831 & 23813 (ace. Suessenguth) ; Rio Inirida, Fernandez 2167 (COL, NY); Rio Parana Pichuna, Schultes d Cabrera 19911 (US).

  • Discussion

    Bapatea wettsteinii Suessenguth, Fedde Eep. Sp. Nov. 30: 275. 1932. Type Luetzelhurg XI. 1928. Nos. 23766, 23768, 23831, & 23813. Closely related to Rapatea paludosa, and particularly similar to R. paludosa var. sessilifiora but differing chiefly from specimens of this taxa by plane, 5-nerved, non-pungent lanceolate bracteole tips, which in var. sessilifiora are 3-nerved and abruptly pungent at the apex.

  • Distribution

    Distribution. Known in the Atlantic Guiana area only from the Northwest District, British Guiana, and apparently of general occurrence but nowhere common in the rain-forest region of Vaupes in Colombia. Probably of wider distribution.

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