Monographs Details:
Authority:

Prance, Ghillean T. & Mori, S. A. 1979. Lecythidaceae - Part I. The actinomorphic-flowered New World Lecythidaceae (Asteranthos, Gustavia, Grias, Allantoma & Cariniana). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 21: 1-270. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:

Lecythidaceae
Synonyms:

Japarandiba pubescens (Ruiz & Pav. ex O.Berg) Kuntze
Description:

Description - Trees, 3-20 m tall; leaf-bearing branches 12-25 mm in diameter, the leaves tightly congested at their ends; leaf scars touching. Leaf blades oblanceolate to spathulate, narrowly attenuate at the base, subsessile, 35-80 x 10-22 cm, glabrous above, velutinous below, especially on the veins, with 30-62 pairs of lateral veins; apices acuminate; margins entire to serrulate-crenulate. Inflorescences terminal, racemose, rusty-tomentose; rachis 40-80 mm, sometimes with sterile ovate bracts 20-25 x 16-18 mm persisting at the base; pedicels 35-70 mm, subtended by a single lanceolate bract 25-35 x 10-14 mm and bearing above the middle 2 oblong bracteoles 13-15 x 9-13 mm. Flowers showy, to 17 cm in diameter; calyx with (5-)6, ovate to triangular lobes, 7-12 x 10-15 mm; petals 6, white to pink, ovate to oblong, 65-85 x 35-55 mm; fused androecium base 12 mm high, the outermost filaments 20 mm, the anthers 3 mm; ovary without costae, densely rusty-tomentose outside, white-puberulous at the summit, 6(-7)-locular, the style 3-4 mm, the stigma 5-6 lobed. Fruits and seeds unknown.

Distribution:

Ecuador South America| Guayas Ecuador South America| Los Ríos Ecuador South America| Bolívar Ecuador South America|

Common Names:

Utugcama, Membrillo de Montana