Monographs Details:
Authority:
Mori, S. A. & Prance, Ghillean T. 1990. Lecythidaceae - Part II: The zygomorphic-flowered New World genera (Couroupita, Corythophora, Bertholletia, Couratari, Eschweilera, & Lecythis). With a study of secondary xylem of Neotropical Lecythidaceae by Carl de Zeeuw. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 21: 1-376. (Published by NYBG Press)
Mori, S. A. & Prance, Ghillean T. 1990. Lecythidaceae - Part II: The zygomorphic-flowered New World genera (Couroupita, Corythophora, Bertholletia, Couratari, Eschweilera, & Lecythis). With a study of secondary xylem of Neotropical Lecythidaceae by Carl de Zeeuw. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 21: 1-376. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Lecythidaceae
Lecythidaceae
Description:
Description - Tree, to 30 m tall, the young branches minutely puberulous, soon becoming glabrous. Leaf blades obovate-oblong, 10.5-16.5 x 4.8-8.5 cm, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; midrib prominulous above, prominent and sparsely puberulous beneath; secondary veins 11-14 pairs, prominulous above, prominent beneath, the tertiary venation prominulous on both surfaces; apex acute to bluntly cuspidate; base rounded to subcuneate, often unequal; margins entire, revolute; petiole 13-18 mm long, minutely puberulous, canaliculate, not winged. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, paniculate arrangements of racemes, the rachises sparsely brown-tomentellous; pedicels 3.5-4 mm long, brown-tomentellous. Flowers with hypanthium campanulate-turbinate, ca. 8 mm long; calyx lobes 5-7.5 mm long, ovate, puberulous on both surfaces, the margins ciliate; petals oblong, 2.7-3 cm long, stellate pubescent on exterior, slightly ciliate at margins; androecium ca. 3 cm long, glabrous, the staminal ring ca. 10 mm in diam., the exterior of hood rugulose but not echinate, the stamens ca. 65, grouped in several rows around staminal ring; ovary 3-locular. Fruits not seen.
Description - Tree, to 30 m tall, the young branches minutely puberulous, soon becoming glabrous. Leaf blades obovate-oblong, 10.5-16.5 x 4.8-8.5 cm, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; midrib prominulous above, prominent and sparsely puberulous beneath; secondary veins 11-14 pairs, prominulous above, prominent beneath, the tertiary venation prominulous on both surfaces; apex acute to bluntly cuspidate; base rounded to subcuneate, often unequal; margins entire, revolute; petiole 13-18 mm long, minutely puberulous, canaliculate, not winged. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, paniculate arrangements of racemes, the rachises sparsely brown-tomentellous; pedicels 3.5-4 mm long, brown-tomentellous. Flowers with hypanthium campanulate-turbinate, ca. 8 mm long; calyx lobes 5-7.5 mm long, ovate, puberulous on both surfaces, the margins ciliate; petals oblong, 2.7-3 cm long, stellate pubescent on exterior, slightly ciliate at margins; androecium ca. 3 cm long, glabrous, the staminal ring ca. 10 mm in diam., the exterior of hood rugulose but not echinate, the stamens ca. 65, grouped in several rows around staminal ring; ovary 3-locular. Fruits not seen.
Distribution:
Guyana South America|
Guyana South America|
Common Names:
wadara
wadara