Monographs Details:
Authority:
Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.
Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.
Family:
Moraceae
Moraceae
Description:
Species Description - (UROSTIGMA.) Glabrous. Branchlets reddish-brown, muchwrinkled and roughened. Stipules nearly 1 cm. long, ovateacuminate and acute. Petioles to 4 cm. long, red and roughened like the branchlets, deeply channeled above. Blades to 7 cm. long, and 8 cm. broad, oblanceolate, with acutish base and abruptly short-pointed and acute summit, entire, pale-green, thickish, the midrib very stout, prominent beneath, nerved, the slender secondaries about 15 on a side, diverging at a right angle, the outer ends strongly upcurved and looped together near the margin, the venation strongly and prominently anastomosing. Fruits axillary, apparently solitary, shortly peduncled, the subtending bracts not seen, globose, about 1 cm. in diameter, the mouth small, light-brown, its margin not elevated, open. Pistillate flower slenderly stipitate, the perigone 6-parted, the segments linear, as long as the inaequilaterally obovoid ovary, its short and slender style arising on the side near the summit. Bractlets subulate, attenuate. Perianth of the staminate flowers 3-parted.
Species Description - (UROSTIGMA.) Glabrous. Branchlets reddish-brown, muchwrinkled and roughened. Stipules nearly 1 cm. long, ovateacuminate and acute. Petioles to 4 cm. long, red and roughened like the branchlets, deeply channeled above. Blades to 7 cm. long, and 8 cm. broad, oblanceolate, with acutish base and abruptly short-pointed and acute summit, entire, pale-green, thickish, the midrib very stout, prominent beneath, nerved, the slender secondaries about 15 on a side, diverging at a right angle, the outer ends strongly upcurved and looped together near the margin, the venation strongly and prominently anastomosing. Fruits axillary, apparently solitary, shortly peduncled, the subtending bracts not seen, globose, about 1 cm. in diameter, the mouth small, light-brown, its margin not elevated, open. Pistillate flower slenderly stipitate, the perigone 6-parted, the segments linear, as long as the inaequilaterally obovoid ovary, its short and slender style arising on the side near the summit. Bractlets subulate, attenuate. Perianth of the staminate flowers 3-parted.
Discussion:
Dr. Gleason, who kindly compared the specimen at Kew, thinks it may be the same as Spruce's 2345, collected at San Gabriel.
Dr. Gleason, who kindly compared the specimen at Kew, thinks it may be the same as Spruce's 2345, collected at San Gabriel.
Distribution:
Bolivia South America|
Bolivia South America|