Taxon Details: Eschweilera spbpanama ined.
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Lecythidaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Lecythidaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Eschweilera spbpanama ined.
Eschweilera spbpanama ined.
Description:
Type: Not designated.
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: Understory trees, the only collection from tree 10 m tall. Leaves: petioles 8-12 mm long; blades elliptic, 12-17 x 6-8.5 cm, chartaceous, glabrous with scattered, sparse, black punctations abaxially, the base obtuse to rounded, the margins entire, the apex obtuse; venation entirely brochidodromous, the secondary veins in 9-11 pairs, impressed adaxially. Inflorescences often on branches below leaves (ramiflorous), unbranched; pedicel/hypanthium 4-5 mm long, cylindric, not sulcate, glabrous, lenticellate, tinged rose with white dots when fresh. Flowers at least 3.5-4.5 cm diam.: calyx-lobes 2.5-3 x 2.5-3 mm, thick, convex to carinate abaxially, nearly horizontally oriented at anthesis, tinged purple with white dots, imbricate only at bases; petals rose pink, speckled with white dots; androecial hood 3-coiled, pink. Fruits at least 3-5 cm diam., globose (including operculum), the supracalycine zone erect, the infracalycine zone truncate, the pericarp exterior rough; opercum umbonate. Seeds 7 per fruit in single fruit seen: aril spreading, white.
Common names: None recorded.
Distribution: Known only from a single specimen, Hernández & Alvarez 192, from Colón, Panama.
Ecology: No information recorded.
Phenology: Specimens from the type locality have been collected in Feb.
Pollination: Flowers of this type usually have a coiled androecial hood, produce nectar, and are most often pollinated by bees.
Dispersal: The seeds of this species are surrounded by a spreading aril which is probably eaten by animals. The seeds of species of Eschweilera are preyed upon by macaws, parrots, and monkeys.
Taxonomic notes: The species is most likely new to science. The distinctly umbonate opercum is known in no other species of Eschweilera with a spreading aril. Observations are needed to determine how variable this feature is among trees. This species can be described based on the collections already available. It would, however, be more informative to have a photo of the medial section of the flower to show the structure of the androecial hood.
Uses: None recorded.
Etymology: The species has not yet received a species epithet.
Type: Not designated.
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: Understory trees, the only collection from tree 10 m tall. Leaves: petioles 8-12 mm long; blades elliptic, 12-17 x 6-8.5 cm, chartaceous, glabrous with scattered, sparse, black punctations abaxially, the base obtuse to rounded, the margins entire, the apex obtuse; venation entirely brochidodromous, the secondary veins in 9-11 pairs, impressed adaxially. Inflorescences often on branches below leaves (ramiflorous), unbranched; pedicel/hypanthium 4-5 mm long, cylindric, not sulcate, glabrous, lenticellate, tinged rose with white dots when fresh. Flowers at least 3.5-4.5 cm diam.: calyx-lobes 2.5-3 x 2.5-3 mm, thick, convex to carinate abaxially, nearly horizontally oriented at anthesis, tinged purple with white dots, imbricate only at bases; petals rose pink, speckled with white dots; androecial hood 3-coiled, pink. Fruits at least 3-5 cm diam., globose (including operculum), the supracalycine zone erect, the infracalycine zone truncate, the pericarp exterior rough; opercum umbonate. Seeds 7 per fruit in single fruit seen: aril spreading, white.
Common names: None recorded.
Distribution: Known only from a single specimen, Hernández & Alvarez 192, from Colón, Panama.
Ecology: No information recorded.
Phenology: Specimens from the type locality have been collected in Feb.
Pollination: Flowers of this type usually have a coiled androecial hood, produce nectar, and are most often pollinated by bees.
Dispersal: The seeds of this species are surrounded by a spreading aril which is probably eaten by animals. The seeds of species of Eschweilera are preyed upon by macaws, parrots, and monkeys.
Taxonomic notes: The species is most likely new to science. The distinctly umbonate opercum is known in no other species of Eschweilera with a spreading aril. Observations are needed to determine how variable this feature is among trees. This species can be described based on the collections already available. It would, however, be more informative to have a photo of the medial section of the flower to show the structure of the androecial hood.
Uses: None recorded.
Etymology: The species has not yet received a species epithet.