Monographs Details:
Authority:
Kubitzki, K. & Renner, Susanne S. 1982. Lauraceae I (Aniba and Aiouea). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 31: 1-125. (Published by NYBG Press)
Kubitzki, K. & Renner, Susanne S. 1982. Lauraceae I (Aniba and Aiouea). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 31: 1-125. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Lauraceae
Lauraceae
Synonyms:
Ocotea puchury-minor Mart., Nectandra puchury-minor (Mart.) Nees, Aniba amazonica (Meisn.) Mez, Aydendron amazonicum Meisn.
Ocotea puchury-minor Mart., Nectandra puchury-minor (Mart.) Nees, Aniba amazonica (Meisn.) Mez, Aydendron amazonicum Meisn.
Description:
Species Description - Tree to 20 m; branchlets stiff, straight, densely and minutely tomentellous, ca. 3 mm thick, glabrescent; terminal bud inconspicuous, 2-5 mm long, tomentellous. Leaves chartaceous, clustered at top of branchlets, elliptical or lanceolate, 12-20 x 4.5-7 cm, base obtuse, acute, cuneate or angustate, apex obtuse or acute and shortly acuminate, glabrous, midrib prominulous, flat or impressed, nerves slightly impressed above, minutely and laxly appressed-pilose, somewhat glabrescent (?), midrib and nerves and nerves prominent beneath, nerves 8-10 pairs, erect-patent, more or less united near margin; petioles slender, canaliculate, tomentellous, 0.8-2.5 cm long. Panicles subterminal, in axils of caducous bracts and persistent leaves, 5-12 cm long, rusty-tomentellous. Flowers tomentellous, 2.5 x 1.8-2 mm; ovary tube inside at base glabrous; pedicels 0.5-1 mm long; tepals erect, ovate-suborbicular, wider than long, 1-1.4 mm long, glabrous inside, inner ones fimbriate at margin, outer ones nearly valvate in bud; stamens 0.8-1 mm long, those of ser. I and II with broad, depressed, glabrous anthers, large cells, slightly protruding connectives and pilose filaments wider than anthers, of ser. III with clavate, glabrous anthers and pilose, biglandulose filaments; staminodes absent; pistil glabrous, 1.8 mm long; style as long as ovary; stigma small, truncate. Berry ellipsoid, to 2.5 x 1.5 cm; cupule red, obconical, rather smooth, with small, rusty spots, to 2.5 x 1.8 cm.
Species Description - Tree to 20 m; branchlets stiff, straight, densely and minutely tomentellous, ca. 3 mm thick, glabrescent; terminal bud inconspicuous, 2-5 mm long, tomentellous. Leaves chartaceous, clustered at top of branchlets, elliptical or lanceolate, 12-20 x 4.5-7 cm, base obtuse, acute, cuneate or angustate, apex obtuse or acute and shortly acuminate, glabrous, midrib prominulous, flat or impressed, nerves slightly impressed above, minutely and laxly appressed-pilose, somewhat glabrescent (?), midrib and nerves and nerves prominent beneath, nerves 8-10 pairs, erect-patent, more or less united near margin; petioles slender, canaliculate, tomentellous, 0.8-2.5 cm long. Panicles subterminal, in axils of caducous bracts and persistent leaves, 5-12 cm long, rusty-tomentellous. Flowers tomentellous, 2.5 x 1.8-2 mm; ovary tube inside at base glabrous; pedicels 0.5-1 mm long; tepals erect, ovate-suborbicular, wider than long, 1-1.4 mm long, glabrous inside, inner ones fimbriate at margin, outer ones nearly valvate in bud; stamens 0.8-1 mm long, those of ser. I and II with broad, depressed, glabrous anthers, large cells, slightly protruding connectives and pilose filaments wider than anthers, of ser. III with clavate, glabrous anthers and pilose, biglandulose filaments; staminodes absent; pistil glabrous, 1.8 mm long; style as long as ovary; stigma small, truncate. Berry ellipsoid, to 2.5 x 1.5 cm; cupule red, obconical, rather smooth, with small, rusty spots, to 2.5 x 1.8 cm.
Discussion:
This species seems to have become rare because there has been much demand for its aromatic seeds which are used for medicine (Martius, 1830). Aniba puchury-minor is difficult to delimit because it possesses few distinctive features. The best diagnostic characters are its rhythmic growth and peculiar leaf indument. However, I am not sure the latter vanishes with age.Aniba tessmannii, considered synonymous with A. puchury-minor by Kostermans (1938b), is identical with A. guianensis. Aniba intermedia, which was made a variety of A. puchury-minor by the same author, is reinstated in this revision.
This species seems to have become rare because there has been much demand for its aromatic seeds which are used for medicine (Martius, 1830). Aniba puchury-minor is difficult to delimit because it possesses few distinctive features. The best diagnostic characters are its rhythmic growth and peculiar leaf indument. However, I am not sure the latter vanishes with age.Aniba tessmannii, considered synonymous with A. puchury-minor by Kostermans (1938b), is identical with A. guianensis. Aniba intermedia, which was made a variety of A. puchury-minor by the same author, is reinstated in this revision.
Distribution:
Colombia South America| Meta Colombia South America| Peru South America| Loreto Peru South America| San MartÃn Peru South America| Brazil South America| Acre Brazil South America| Bolivia South America| Pando Bolivia South America|
Colombia South America| Meta Colombia South America| Peru South America| Loreto Peru South America| San MartÃn Peru South America| Brazil South America| Acre Brazil South America| Bolivia South America| Pando Bolivia South America|