Monographs Details:
Authority:
Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.
Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.
Family:
Sapindaceae
Sapindaceae
Description:
Species Description - Younger portions and inflorescence finely or sparsely puberulent, the branchlets and branches of the inflorescence strongly ascending, often recurved toward the summit, strongly sulcate, deep-purple. Petioles 1 to 2 cm. long, 2 or 3 times as long as the rachis and, like it, narrowly winged, with the wing puberulent and involute on drying, the leaflets 5, sessile, more or less pendulous, the four lateral subequal, the terminal a little larger, from 2.5 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, oval with rounded base (the terminal acutish), and obtusish summit, all nearly equilateral, with 3 strong obtuse teeth above the middle, thick, glabrous and sublucid, the midrib and secondaries impressed above, strongly prominent beneath, the latter about 8 on a side, stout, ascending, rather crooked, the intervening venation densely and strongly anastomosing. Panicles racemiform, 1 to 1.5 dm. long, including the peduncle, not more than 1 cm. broad, densely flowered, the branchlets mostly 2- to 4-flowered, the pedicels very short, slender, the bracts setaceous, much longer than the pedicels, the flowers, as pressed, 5 to 7 mm. broad. Fruit about 18 mm. long, including the stipe, which is nearly a third of the length, 1 cm. broad, pyriform, very shortly and stoutly mucronate, and bearing a short connate style-base, the cells empty in all my specimens.
Species Description - Younger portions and inflorescence finely or sparsely puberulent, the branchlets and branches of the inflorescence strongly ascending, often recurved toward the summit, strongly sulcate, deep-purple. Petioles 1 to 2 cm. long, 2 or 3 times as long as the rachis and, like it, narrowly winged, with the wing puberulent and involute on drying, the leaflets 5, sessile, more or less pendulous, the four lateral subequal, the terminal a little larger, from 2.5 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, oval with rounded base (the terminal acutish), and obtusish summit, all nearly equilateral, with 3 strong obtuse teeth above the middle, thick, glabrous and sublucid, the midrib and secondaries impressed above, strongly prominent beneath, the latter about 8 on a side, stout, ascending, rather crooked, the intervening venation densely and strongly anastomosing. Panicles racemiform, 1 to 1.5 dm. long, including the peduncle, not more than 1 cm. broad, densely flowered, the branchlets mostly 2- to 4-flowered, the pedicels very short, slender, the bracts setaceous, much longer than the pedicels, the flowers, as pressed, 5 to 7 mm. broad. Fruit about 18 mm. long, including the stipe, which is nearly a third of the length, 1 cm. broad, pyriform, very shortly and stoutly mucronate, and bearing a short connate style-base, the cells empty in all my specimens.
Distribution:
Bolivia South America|
Bolivia South America|