Taxon Details: Couratari prancei W.A.Rodrigues
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Protologue of Couratari prancei.
Protologue of Couratari prancei.Family:
Lecythidaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Lecythidaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Couratari prancei W.A.Rodrigues
Couratari prancei W.A.Rodrigues
Primary Citation:
Acta Amazonica 4(1): 10. 1974
Acta Amazonica 4(1): 10. 1974
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Author: Ghillean T. Prance
Type: Brazil. Acre: Km 3-6 rd. Sena Madureira to Rio Branco, 2 Oct 1968 (fr), Prance et ale 7755 (holotype, INPA; isotypes, MG, NY).
Description: Trees to 30 m tall, the young branches puberulous, becoming glabrous with age. Leaves: petiole 8-15 mm long, puberulous, canaliculate, not winged; blades elliptic to ovate, 6-12 x 4-8.5 cm, chartaceous, densely stellate pubescent abaxially, the pubescence forming complete pale covering, the base rounded, the margins entire, the apex retuse, rounded or bluntly acute; midrib plane to prominulous and tomentellous above, prominent and puberulous beneath, secondary veins in 20-24 pairs, plane and puberulous when young adaxially, prominent and puberulous abaxially. Inflorescence and flowers unknown. Fruits elongate-curved-cylindrical, broadest almost at apex above calycine ring, 11-14 x 4.5-5.3 cm, stipe 15-18 mm long, the pericarp hard and woody, ca. 2.5 mm thick, exterior covered with large conspicuous lenticels 2-6 mm long, the calycine ring ca. 1.5 cm below apex, plane, not ridged or furrowed, the rim thin, ragged and irregularly dentate at point where operculum dehisces; operculum plane, radially grooved, the columella triangular. Seeds oblong-lanceolate, symmetrical, 8-9 x 1.8-2.3 cm.
Common names: None known.
Distribution: Known only from the type collection.
Ecology: Found in non-flooded forest.
Phenology: Flowers unknown. Fruits have been collected in Oct.
Pollination: No reports of pollination have been recorded.
Dispersal: The seeds are wind dispersed.
Predation: No observations recorded.
Field characters:
Taxonomic notes:
Conservation: IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered B1+2d ver 2.3 (Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. Couratari prancei. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 24 February 2014.).
Uses: None known.
Etymology: This species was named in honor of Ghillean T. Prance.
Source: This species page is based on Mori & Prance, 1990.
Author: Ghillean T. Prance
Type: Brazil. Acre: Km 3-6 rd. Sena Madureira to Rio Branco, 2 Oct 1968 (fr), Prance et ale 7755 (holotype, INPA; isotypes, MG, NY).
Description: Trees to 30 m tall, the young branches puberulous, becoming glabrous with age. Leaves: petiole 8-15 mm long, puberulous, canaliculate, not winged; blades elliptic to ovate, 6-12 x 4-8.5 cm, chartaceous, densely stellate pubescent abaxially, the pubescence forming complete pale covering, the base rounded, the margins entire, the apex retuse, rounded or bluntly acute; midrib plane to prominulous and tomentellous above, prominent and puberulous beneath, secondary veins in 20-24 pairs, plane and puberulous when young adaxially, prominent and puberulous abaxially. Inflorescence and flowers unknown. Fruits elongate-curved-cylindrical, broadest almost at apex above calycine ring, 11-14 x 4.5-5.3 cm, stipe 15-18 mm long, the pericarp hard and woody, ca. 2.5 mm thick, exterior covered with large conspicuous lenticels 2-6 mm long, the calycine ring ca. 1.5 cm below apex, plane, not ridged or furrowed, the rim thin, ragged and irregularly dentate at point where operculum dehisces; operculum plane, radially grooved, the columella triangular. Seeds oblong-lanceolate, symmetrical, 8-9 x 1.8-2.3 cm.
Common names: None known.
Distribution: Known only from the type collection.
Ecology: Found in non-flooded forest.
Phenology: Flowers unknown. Fruits have been collected in Oct.
Pollination: No reports of pollination have been recorded.
Dispersal: The seeds are wind dispersed.
Predation: No observations recorded.
Field characters:
Taxonomic notes:
Conservation: IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered B1+2d ver 2.3 (Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. Couratari prancei. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 24 February 2014.).
Uses: None known.
Etymology: This species was named in honor of Ghillean T. Prance.
Source: This species page is based on Mori & Prance, 1990.
Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):
Couratari prancei W.A.Rodrigues: [Article] 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.
Couratari prancei W.A.Rodrigues: [Article] 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.