Monographs Details:
Authority:
Maguire, Bassett. 1978. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part XI. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 32: 1-391.
Maguire, Bassett. 1978. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part XI. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 32: 1-391.
Family:
Malpighiaceae
Malpighiaceae
Description:
Species Description - Shrubs or small trees 2-8 m tall; stems loosely sericeous to glabrate. Lamina of the larger leaves 11-18 cm long, 7-10(-12) cm wide, elliptical or ovate, rounded and often slightly attenuate at the base, undulate and crispate at the margin, acuminate and often cuspidate at the apex, bearing 0-2 glands near the base by the midrib and several distally in 1-3 rows, sparsely sericeous to glabrate above, persistently sericeous below, the hairs short, straight, sessHe or subsessile, abundant but not so dense as to completely conceal the lamina; petiole 6-8 mm long, sericeous to glabrate, eglandular; stipules 1-1.5 mm long, borne on the base of the petiole. Inflorescence 5-11 cm long, without vegetative leaves, loosely sericeous to glabrate, the flowers 10-20, often paired (1 above the other) in the axil of the same bract; bracts decussate ± the whole length of the inflorescence, 2-3 mm long; peduncle 2.5-5 mm long; bracteoles apical, 1-1.5 mm long, 1 bearing an often cylindrical abaxial gland. Pedicel 2-4.5 mm long (-6 mm in fruit), sericeous to glabrate. Sepals 1.5-2 mm long and wide beyond the glands, rounded, ciliate on the margin and abaxially thinly sericeous, the glands 10, 4-6.5 mm long, free and recurved at the apex, some partly connate in pairs with glands from adjacent sepals. Petals yellow, the lateral 4 with the claw 2-2.5 mm long, the limb 5-7(-8) mm long and wide, larger and more concave in the anterior pair, eglandular-dentate, the posterior petal with the claw 2.5-3 mm long, the limb 4-5 mm long and wide, flat, glandular-dentate, at least proximally. Filaments 2.5-3.5 mm long, up to 1/2 connate; anthers 1-1.8 mm long, the connective yellow or light brown, the locules pendulous at base. Ovary 2-2.5 mm high, ovoid, bicarpellate, sericeous; style (formed by 2 connate) 3-3.5 mm long, sericeous, the stigmas nearly free, reniform-peltate. Fruit orange to red, 20-28 mm long, 15-20 mm in diameter, globose or ellipsoid, very sparsely sericeous to glabrate, the wall smooth.
Species Description - Shrubs or small trees 2-8 m tall; stems loosely sericeous to glabrate. Lamina of the larger leaves 11-18 cm long, 7-10(-12) cm wide, elliptical or ovate, rounded and often slightly attenuate at the base, undulate and crispate at the margin, acuminate and often cuspidate at the apex, bearing 0-2 glands near the base by the midrib and several distally in 1-3 rows, sparsely sericeous to glabrate above, persistently sericeous below, the hairs short, straight, sessHe or subsessile, abundant but not so dense as to completely conceal the lamina; petiole 6-8 mm long, sericeous to glabrate, eglandular; stipules 1-1.5 mm long, borne on the base of the petiole. Inflorescence 5-11 cm long, without vegetative leaves, loosely sericeous to glabrate, the flowers 10-20, often paired (1 above the other) in the axil of the same bract; bracts decussate ± the whole length of the inflorescence, 2-3 mm long; peduncle 2.5-5 mm long; bracteoles apical, 1-1.5 mm long, 1 bearing an often cylindrical abaxial gland. Pedicel 2-4.5 mm long (-6 mm in fruit), sericeous to glabrate. Sepals 1.5-2 mm long and wide beyond the glands, rounded, ciliate on the margin and abaxially thinly sericeous, the glands 10, 4-6.5 mm long, free and recurved at the apex, some partly connate in pairs with glands from adjacent sepals. Petals yellow, the lateral 4 with the claw 2-2.5 mm long, the limb 5-7(-8) mm long and wide, larger and more concave in the anterior pair, eglandular-dentate, the posterior petal with the claw 2.5-3 mm long, the limb 4-5 mm long and wide, flat, glandular-dentate, at least proximally. Filaments 2.5-3.5 mm long, up to 1/2 connate; anthers 1-1.8 mm long, the connective yellow or light brown, the locules pendulous at base. Ovary 2-2.5 mm high, ovoid, bicarpellate, sericeous; style (formed by 2 connate) 3-3.5 mm long, sericeous, the stigmas nearly free, reniform-peltate. Fruit orange to red, 20-28 mm long, 15-20 mm in diameter, globose or ellipsoid, very sparsely sericeous to glabrate, the wall smooth.
Discussion:
4. Bunchosia glandulifera (Jacquin) Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. PI. 5: 154 (4° ed.). 1821 [1822]. Malpighia glandulifera Jacquin, Collect. 4: 207. 1790 [1791] & 5: tab. 5, fig. 3. 1796 [1797]. Type. Jacquin, "In sylvis ad Caracas," Venezuela. This species has been widely distributed through cultivation, probably formerly by the indigenous peoples as well as more recently by Europeans. I do not know where it originated, but some of the collections from Amazonian Colombia cited by Cuatrecasas (1958) make no mention of its being a cultivated plant, so perhaps it is native there.
4. Bunchosia glandulifera (Jacquin) Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. PI. 5: 154 (4° ed.). 1821 [1822]. Malpighia glandulifera Jacquin, Collect. 4: 207. 1790 [1791] & 5: tab. 5, fig. 3. 1796 [1797]. Type. Jacquin, "In sylvis ad Caracas," Venezuela. This species has been widely distributed through cultivation, probably formerly by the indigenous peoples as well as more recently by Europeans. I do not know where it originated, but some of the collections from Amazonian Colombia cited by Cuatrecasas (1958) make no mention of its being a cultivated plant, so perhaps it is native there.
Distribution:
West Indies| Venezuela South America| Colombia South America| Guyana South America| Suriname South America| French Guiana South America|
West Indies| Venezuela South America| Colombia South America| Guyana South America| Suriname South America| French Guiana South America|