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 15 m tall, without buttresses. Bark light gray, smooth to slightly warty. Leaf blades narrowly oblong, 26.5-37 x 7.5-12.5 cm., glabrous, chartaceous, punctate abaxially, with 20-28 pairs of lateral veins, these impressed above, salient below, joining superadjacent veins to form marginal vein; apex acuminate to very long acuminate; base obtuse; margins entire, slightly revolute; petiole 10-18 mm long. Inflorescences cauline, from warty outgrowths on trunk, unbranched or infrequently once-branched racemes, the rachis 6-8 cm long, warty, the pedicels 10 mm long, glabrous, without conspicuous lenticels. Flowers 5-7 cm diam.; calyx with six lobes, the lobes very widely ovate, 3.5-4 x 4-5 mm, spreading, not imbricate, convex abaxially, flat adaxially; petals six, widely obovate, 25-30 x 15-18 mm, reddish-violet; hood of androecium with triple coil, reddish-violet; staminal ring with ca. 200 stamens, the filaments clavate, 1.5 mm long, the anthers 0.5 mm long; hypanthium truncate at base, glabrous, without conspicuous lenticels; ovary 2-locular, each locule with five ovules attached to placenta on floor of locule, the style curved, 3.5 mm long. Fruits depressed globose, 10 x 20 cm, the pericarp leathery; operculum convex, umbonate. Seeds wedge-shaped in cross section, 5.5-6 x 3-5 cm, with fleshy, yellow-white aril on inner edge.
Description - Trees, to 15 m tall, without buttresses. Bark light gray, smooth to slightly warty. Leaf blades narrowly oblong, 26.5-37 x 7.5-12.5 cm., glabrous, chartaceous, punctate abaxially, with 20-28 pairs of lateral veins, these impressed above, salient below, joining superadjacent veins to form marginal vein; apex acuminate to very long acuminate; base obtuse; margins entire, slightly revolute; petiole 10-18 mm long. Inflorescences cauline, from warty outgrowths on trunk, unbranched or infrequently once-branched racemes, the rachis 6-8 cm long, warty, the pedicels 10 mm long, glabrous, without conspicuous lenticels. Flowers 5-7 cm diam.; calyx with six lobes, the lobes very widely ovate, 3.5-4 x 4-5 mm, spreading, not imbricate, convex abaxially, flat adaxially; petals six, widely obovate, 25-30 x 15-18 mm, reddish-violet; hood of androecium with triple coil, reddish-violet; staminal ring with ca. 200 stamens, the filaments clavate, 1.5 mm long, the anthers 0.5 mm long; hypanthium truncate at base, glabrous, without conspicuous lenticels; ovary 2-locular, each locule with five ovules attached to placenta on floor of locule, the style curved, 3.5 mm long. Fruits depressed globose, 10 x 20 cm, the pericarp leathery; operculum convex, umbonate. Seeds wedge-shaped in cross section, 5.5-6 x 3-5 cm, with fleshy, yellow-white aril on inner edge.
Discussion:
Eschweilera rimbachii is morphologically similar to E. caudiculata from which it differs by its longer leaves, more pronounced marginal vein, and larger seeds.
Eschweilera rimbachii is morphologically similar to E. caudiculata from which it differs by its longer leaves, more pronounced marginal vein, and larger seeds.
Distribution:
Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America| Ecuador South America| Imbabura Ecuador South America|
Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America| Ecuador South America| Imbabura Ecuador South America|