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, to 25 m tall. Bark brown, rugose, scaly, thin. Leaf blades oblong, 36-50 x 11-18.5 cm, glabrous, punctate abaxially, with 16-20 pairs of lateral veins; apex acuminate; base obtuse to rounded; margins entire; petiole 15-30 mm long. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, infrequently cauline, usually unbranched, infrequently oncebranched, spicate, the principal rachis to 13 cm long, gray, sparsely lenticellate, the flowers congested, sessile, subtended by two persistent, widely ovate bracteoles. Flowers 5-6 cm diam.; calyx with six lobes, the lobes very widely to widely ovate, 12-15 x 12-15 mm, erect, imbricate for ¾ length, plane abaxially and adaxially; petals six, obovate, 30-38 x 20 mm, yellow; hood of androecium forming triple coil, yellow flushed with pink; filaments clavate, 1.5 mm long; hypanthium shallow, truncate at base; ovary 2-locular, each locule with 6-9 ovules. Fruits depressed globose, with narrow granulated belt around middle, 5 x 8 cm, the operculum obtusely umbonate, the pericarp thin. Seeds 5-6 per fruit.
Description - Trees, to 25 m tall. Bark brown, rugose, scaly, thin. Leaf blades oblong, 36-50 x 11-18.5 cm, glabrous, punctate abaxially, with 16-20 pairs of lateral veins; apex acuminate; base obtuse to rounded; margins entire; petiole 15-30 mm long. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, infrequently cauline, usually unbranched, infrequently oncebranched, spicate, the principal rachis to 13 cm long, gray, sparsely lenticellate, the flowers congested, sessile, subtended by two persistent, widely ovate bracteoles. Flowers 5-6 cm diam.; calyx with six lobes, the lobes very widely to widely ovate, 12-15 x 12-15 mm, erect, imbricate for ¾ length, plane abaxially and adaxially; petals six, obovate, 30-38 x 20 mm, yellow; hood of androecium forming triple coil, yellow flushed with pink; filaments clavate, 1.5 mm long; hypanthium shallow, truncate at base; ovary 2-locular, each locule with 6-9 ovules. Fruits depressed globose, with narrow granulated belt around middle, 5 x 8 cm, the operculum obtusely umbonate, the pericarp thin. Seeds 5-6 per fruit.
Discussion:
Eschweilera sclerophylla is morphologically similar to E. calyculata from which it differs in its larger leaves, larger Calyx-lobes, and sessile flowers.
Eschweilera sclerophylla is morphologically similar to E. calyculata from which it differs in its larger leaves, larger Calyx-lobes, and sessile flowers.
Distribution:
Colombia South America| Chocó Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America|
Colombia South America| Chocó Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America|