Taxon Details: Eschweilera spacostarica ined.
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Family:
Lecythidaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Lecythidaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Eschweilera spacostarica ined.
Eschweilera spacostarica ined.
Description:
Status: A temporary name given to this species. A final name will be assigned this species when enough information is gathered about the species to justifiy publication.
Description: Canopy to emergent trees. Bark light gray, sheds in flakes, scalloped. Leaves: petioles 15-20 mm long, robust; blades 18-24 x 5.5-9 cm, oblong to oblanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, punctuations abaxially, the base acute to obtuse, the margins entire, the apex short acuminate; secondary veins in 10-14 pairs, plane to slightly raised adaxially, salient abaxially. Inflorescences terminal (suprafoliar) or axillary, unbranched, spicate, 8-12 cm long, glabrous, sparsely lenticellate; pedicel/hypanthium 4 mm long, thick, cylindric, truncate at articulation, not sulcate, glabrous, scarcely lenticellate, drying black. Flowers: calyx-lobes ovate, carinate, 3-3.5 x 3-3.5 mm, glabrous, drying black, the bases not imbricate; petals rose at apex and along margins, cream colored at base; style thick, with annular ring toward apex. Fruits at least 2-3 cm diam. (based on a single immature fruit at NY) short-cylindric to globose (without operculum), the calycine ring with expanded, woody calyx-lobes, the supracalycine zone erect, the infracalycine zone short, broadly tapered, the pericarp rough, lenticellate, reddish-brown, the opercum convex, not umbonate. Seeds ca. 3 per fruit; aril not known
Common names: None known.
Distribution: Known only from a single collection from the Caribbean south of Limón.
Specimens examined: Specimen examined. COSTA RICA. Limón, one hour walk above San Clemente, 17 Oct 1967 (fl), S. A. Mori 349 (NY, 2 sheets).
Ecology: The only collection came from a remnant tree in disturbed wet forest on well-drained soil.
Phenology: The species was just at the end of flowering when the collection was made.
Pollination: No information recorded.
Dispersal: No information recorded.
Taxonomic notes: This collection was previously determined as E. calyculata but the sepals are much thicker and smaller than in that species. Compare the attached image with the photo of the fruit in the protologue of E. calyculata. Flowers, mature fruits, and seeds showing the aril are needed before it can be described. When collections are made it is very important to photograph the flowers from the side, the top, and from the bottom to show the calyx. It is especially important to make a medial section of the flower to show the structure of the androecial hood. Likewise, the fruits should be photographed from the side, the top, and the bottom. It is especially important to show the seeds in the fruit (remove the operculum) and the seeds outside of the fruit. The structure of the aril is very useful in the classification of Neotropical Lecythidaceae. For an example of a species with all of these features photographed see Lecythis tuyrana. When legal, one centimeter square pieces of leaves dried in silica or sunlight (not on a drying stove) should be collected for molecular studies.
Uses: None known.
Etymology: A name has not yet been selected for this species.
Status: A temporary name given to this species. A final name will be assigned this species when enough information is gathered about the species to justifiy publication.
Description: Canopy to emergent trees. Bark light gray, sheds in flakes, scalloped. Leaves: petioles 15-20 mm long, robust; blades 18-24 x 5.5-9 cm, oblong to oblanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, punctuations abaxially, the base acute to obtuse, the margins entire, the apex short acuminate; secondary veins in 10-14 pairs, plane to slightly raised adaxially, salient abaxially. Inflorescences terminal (suprafoliar) or axillary, unbranched, spicate, 8-12 cm long, glabrous, sparsely lenticellate; pedicel/hypanthium 4 mm long, thick, cylindric, truncate at articulation, not sulcate, glabrous, scarcely lenticellate, drying black. Flowers: calyx-lobes ovate, carinate, 3-3.5 x 3-3.5 mm, glabrous, drying black, the bases not imbricate; petals rose at apex and along margins, cream colored at base; style thick, with annular ring toward apex. Fruits at least 2-3 cm diam. (based on a single immature fruit at NY) short-cylindric to globose (without operculum), the calycine ring with expanded, woody calyx-lobes, the supracalycine zone erect, the infracalycine zone short, broadly tapered, the pericarp rough, lenticellate, reddish-brown, the opercum convex, not umbonate. Seeds ca. 3 per fruit; aril not known
Common names: None known.
Distribution: Known only from a single collection from the Caribbean south of Limón.
Specimens examined: Specimen examined. COSTA RICA. Limón, one hour walk above San Clemente, 17 Oct 1967 (fl), S. A. Mori 349 (NY, 2 sheets).
Ecology: The only collection came from a remnant tree in disturbed wet forest on well-drained soil.
Phenology: The species was just at the end of flowering when the collection was made.
Pollination: No information recorded.
Dispersal: No information recorded.
Taxonomic notes: This collection was previously determined as E. calyculata but the sepals are much thicker and smaller than in that species. Compare the attached image with the photo of the fruit in the protologue of E. calyculata. Flowers, mature fruits, and seeds showing the aril are needed before it can be described. When collections are made it is very important to photograph the flowers from the side, the top, and from the bottom to show the calyx. It is especially important to make a medial section of the flower to show the structure of the androecial hood. Likewise, the fruits should be photographed from the side, the top, and the bottom. It is especially important to show the seeds in the fruit (remove the operculum) and the seeds outside of the fruit. The structure of the aril is very useful in the classification of Neotropical Lecythidaceae. For an example of a species with all of these features photographed see Lecythis tuyrana. When legal, one centimeter square pieces of leaves dried in silica or sunlight (not on a drying stove) should be collected for molecular studies.
Uses: None known.
Etymology: A name has not yet been selected for this species.