Banara parviflora (A.Gray) Benth.

  • Authority

    Sleumer, Hermann O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 22: 1-499. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Salicaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Banara parviflora (A.Gray) Benth.

  • Type

    Type. U. S. Expl. Exp. sn, Brazil, Guanabara, Serra dos Orgãos, fl (holotype, US, fragm GH).

  • Synonyms

    Kuhlia parviflora A.Gray, Banara exechandra Briq., Banara brasiliensis (Schott) Benth.

  • Description

    Description - Treelet or tree 3.0-8.0 (rarely -20.0) m tall; trunk up to 50.0 cm diam; bark grayish-brown. Branches virgate, pendent. Branchlets slender, glabrous, minutely lenticellate. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rarely oblong, apex subacutely acuminate, base slightly or hardly unequal, cuneate, or rounded on one side, chartaceous, glabrous, shining on both faces, 5.0-8.0(-11.0) cm long, 2.0-3.0(-3.5) cm broad, rather regularly glandular-subcrenate-serrate (1.0-1.5 mm), 3- or faintly 5-nerved from base, with 4-6 pairs of upper lateral nerves, all nerves prominent beneath, veins more or less transverse, rather densely reticulate with the veinlets and but slightly raised beneath; petiole slender, 6.0-10.0 mm long; stipules subulate, 1.5 mm long, tardily caducous. Panicles terminal, pyramidate, composed of simple racemes in the upper, shortly branched ones in the lower part, slender, very many-flowered, all over puberulous or glabrescent, up to 6.0 cm long and wide below; pedicels slender, glabrous, 2.0-4.0 mm long; bracts lanceolate-subulate, bearded distally, ca 1.5 mm long. Flowers small, yellow. Sepals 3, ovate, obtuse, (sub)glabrous on both faces, 1.5-2.0 mm long. Petals 3, broad-oblong, to subobovate, obtuse, ciliate, otherwise glabrous, ca 2.0 mm long. Receptacle glabrous. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style hardly 1.0 mm long. Fruit baccate, reddish or orange, ca 5.0 mm diam; seeds few, compressed-ovoid, blackish, 1.5 mm long.

  • Distribution

    Brazil (Rio de Janeiro/Guanabara to Rio Grande do Sul); in the humid montane forest zone of SE Brazil, also in Araucaria forest of the altiplano, up to 1100 m alt.

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