Monographs Details:
Authority:
Prance, Ghillean T. 1972. Chrysobalanaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 9: 1-410. (Published by NYBG Press)
Prance, Ghillean T. 1972. Chrysobalanaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 9: 1-410. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Chrysobalanaceae
Chrysobalanaceae
Description:
Description - Small to medium-sized tree, the young branches puberulous, becoming glabrous and lenticellate with age. Leaves predominantly orbicular but occasionally elliptic, thick-coriaceous, 3.0-10.0 cm long, 1.8-7.0 cm broad, retuse rounded or acute at apex, rounded to subcuneate at base, the margins revolute, glabrous above, with waxy gray pulverulent-furfuraceous pubescence beneath; midrib glabrous and plane above; primary veins 7-11 pairs, prominent beneath, prominulous above; petioles 2.0-5.0 mm long, puberulous, becoming glabrescent with age, terete, with two rather obscure glands at lamina base. Stipules 1.0-4.0 mm long, deltoid, coriaceous, adnate to base of petiole, subpersistent. Inflorescences terminal and axillary little-branched racemose panicles, 6.0-10.0 cm long, the rachis and branches tomentellous. Bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, ca 2.0 mm long, in small groups on primary branches of inflorescence. Receptacle urceolate, sessile, light brown tomentose on exterior, sparsely puberulous within. Calyx lobes acute, tomentellous on both surfaces. Petals absent. Stamens 2-4, unilateral; filaments shorter than calyx lobes, glabrous. Ovary inserted at base of receptacle, pubescent. Style rising to base of filaments, pubescent. Fruit pyriform, ca 4.0 cm long, 2.0-2.5 cm broad; epicarp glabrous, drying yellow and wrinkled; mesocarp very thin; endocarp hard to 3.0 mm thick, granular and fibrous, velutinous within.
Description - Small to medium-sized tree, the young branches puberulous, becoming glabrous and lenticellate with age. Leaves predominantly orbicular but occasionally elliptic, thick-coriaceous, 3.0-10.0 cm long, 1.8-7.0 cm broad, retuse rounded or acute at apex, rounded to subcuneate at base, the margins revolute, glabrous above, with waxy gray pulverulent-furfuraceous pubescence beneath; midrib glabrous and plane above; primary veins 7-11 pairs, prominent beneath, prominulous above; petioles 2.0-5.0 mm long, puberulous, becoming glabrescent with age, terete, with two rather obscure glands at lamina base. Stipules 1.0-4.0 mm long, deltoid, coriaceous, adnate to base of petiole, subpersistent. Inflorescences terminal and axillary little-branched racemose panicles, 6.0-10.0 cm long, the rachis and branches tomentellous. Bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, ca 2.0 mm long, in small groups on primary branches of inflorescence. Receptacle urceolate, sessile, light brown tomentose on exterior, sparsely puberulous within. Calyx lobes acute, tomentellous on both surfaces. Petals absent. Stamens 2-4, unilateral; filaments shorter than calyx lobes, glabrous. Ovary inserted at base of receptacle, pubescent. Style rising to base of filaments, pubescent. Fruit pyriform, ca 4.0 cm long, 2.0-2.5 cm broad; epicarp glabrous, drying yellow and wrinkled; mesocarp very thin; endocarp hard to 3.0 mm thick, granular and fibrous, velutinous within.
Discussion:
Flowering October to January.
Distribution:
Venezuela South America| Amazonas Venezuela South America| Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America|
Venezuela South America| Amazonas Venezuela South America| Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America|