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 - Trees 4-30 m x 5-80 cm. Bark not fissured, the outer 2 mm thick, the inner laminated, 10 mm thick, yellow when cut. Leaf blades elliptic, 6-10 x 3.5-4.5 cm, glabrous, chartaceous, with 8-10 pairs of lateral veins, all orders of venation salient; apex acuminate; base obtuse, very narrowly decurrent; margins entire, slightly revolute; petiole 5-8 mm long, hemispherical in cross section. Inflorescences of simple spikes or paniculate arrangements of once-branched spikes, terminal or in axils of uppermost leaves, the secondary branches weakly developed; rachis 3-8 cm long, with horizontally oriented squamulae. Flowers 2-2.5 cm diam.; calyx with six lobes, ovate, 2-5 x 4-5 mm; petals four, cucullate, widely obovate, 12-14 x 15-18 mm, white; hood of androecium yellow, curved inwards but not forming complete coil, appendages angular, to 7 mm long, filaments filiform, attenuated at apex, to 1.5 mm long, the anthers 0.7 mm long; ovary 2-locular, each locule with ca. 10 ovules, style to I.5 mm long, not well differentiated from summit of ovary. Fruits turbinate, 4.5-5 x 6-7.5 cm, the pericarp 10-12 mm thick. Seeds semicircular or triangular in cross section, 2.5 x 2.5 cm, chestnut colored, the nerves recessed, colored as the testa.
Description - Trees 4-30 m x 5-80 cm. Bark not fissured, the outer 2 mm thick, the inner laminated, 10 mm thick, yellow when cut. Leaf blades elliptic, 6-10 x 3.5-4.5 cm, glabrous, chartaceous, with 8-10 pairs of lateral veins, all orders of venation salient; apex acuminate; base obtuse, very narrowly decurrent; margins entire, slightly revolute; petiole 5-8 mm long, hemispherical in cross section. Inflorescences of simple spikes or paniculate arrangements of once-branched spikes, terminal or in axils of uppermost leaves, the secondary branches weakly developed; rachis 3-8 cm long, with horizontally oriented squamulae. Flowers 2-2.5 cm diam.; calyx with six lobes, ovate, 2-5 x 4-5 mm; petals four, cucullate, widely obovate, 12-14 x 15-18 mm, white; hood of androecium yellow, curved inwards but not forming complete coil, appendages angular, to 7 mm long, filaments filiform, attenuated at apex, to 1.5 mm long, the anthers 0.7 mm long; ovary 2-locular, each locule with ca. 10 ovules, style to I.5 mm long, not well differentiated from summit of ovary. Fruits turbinate, 4.5-5 x 6-7.5 cm, the pericarp 10-12 mm thick. Seeds semicircular or triangular in cross section, 2.5 x 2.5 cm, chestnut colored, the nerves recessed, colored as the testa.
Discussion:
See discussion of Eschweilera tetrapetala for information on relationships of E. alvimii.
See discussion of Eschweilera tetrapetala for information on relationships of E. alvimii.
Distribution:
Brazil South America| Alagoas Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Pernambuco Brazil South America|
Brazil South America| Alagoas Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Pernambuco Brazil South America|
Common Names:
falso Sapucaia, sapucar-ana
falso Sapucaia, sapucar-ana