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:
Latin Diagnosis - A ceteris generis speciebus lobis calycis pro-funde imbricatis et fructibus parvis differt.
Description - Trees, to 40 m tall. Bark brown, with inconspicuous vertical fissures. Leaf blades usually elliptic, infrequently narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 8.5-15.5 x 4-7.5 cm, glabrous, with scattered, inconspicuous, abaxial punctae, the abaxial surface with reddish cast except for lighter colored veins, chartaceous, with 11-12 pairs of lateral veins; apex acuminate to long acuminate; base acute to obtuse; margins entire; petiole 10-17 mm long, canaliculate. Inflorescences terminal or in axils of uppermost leaves, usually of simple racemes, infrequently once-branched paniculate arrangement of racemes, the rachis 25 cm long; pedicels 8 mm long, puberulous, subtended by oblong, caducous bract 10-15x4 mm and two similarly shaped bracteoles inserted directly above former. Flowers ca. 2-3 cm diam.; calyx with six lobes, the lobes widely to narrowly ovate, 6-8 x 4-6 mm, ascending, concave adaxially, convex abaxially; petals six, unequal, widely obovate, 20-22 x 13-15 mm, white; hood of androecium 14 x 15 mm, forming a distinct double coil, yellow; staminal ring with ca. 175 stamens, the filaments 1 mm long, slightly clavate, the anthers 0.6 mm long; hypanthium cuneate, puberulous; ovary 2-locular, with 5-8 ovules attached to base of septum, the style erect, ca. 2.2 mm long. Fruits small, 1.5-2.5 x 2-3.5 cm, 2-4 mm thick, the base globose, few-seeded, with persistent, little enlarged Calyx-lobes; operculum convex, without umbo.
Latin Diagnosis - A ceteris generis speciebus lobis calycis pro-funde imbricatis et fructibus parvis differt.
Description - Trees, to 40 m tall. Bark brown, with inconspicuous vertical fissures. Leaf blades usually elliptic, infrequently narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 8.5-15.5 x 4-7.5 cm, glabrous, with scattered, inconspicuous, abaxial punctae, the abaxial surface with reddish cast except for lighter colored veins, chartaceous, with 11-12 pairs of lateral veins; apex acuminate to long acuminate; base acute to obtuse; margins entire; petiole 10-17 mm long, canaliculate. Inflorescences terminal or in axils of uppermost leaves, usually of simple racemes, infrequently once-branched paniculate arrangement of racemes, the rachis 25 cm long; pedicels 8 mm long, puberulous, subtended by oblong, caducous bract 10-15x4 mm and two similarly shaped bracteoles inserted directly above former. Flowers ca. 2-3 cm diam.; calyx with six lobes, the lobes widely to narrowly ovate, 6-8 x 4-6 mm, ascending, concave adaxially, convex abaxially; petals six, unequal, widely obovate, 20-22 x 13-15 mm, white; hood of androecium 14 x 15 mm, forming a distinct double coil, yellow; staminal ring with ca. 175 stamens, the filaments 1 mm long, slightly clavate, the anthers 0.6 mm long; hypanthium cuneate, puberulous; ovary 2-locular, with 5-8 ovules attached to base of septum, the style erect, ca. 2.2 mm long. Fruits small, 1.5-2.5 x 2-3.5 cm, 2-4 mm thick, the base globose, few-seeded, with persistent, little enlarged Calyx-lobes; operculum convex, without umbo.
Discussion:
Eschweilera neei is characterized by its leaves with a reddish cast abaxially; small fruits; ascending, relatively large Calyx-lobes; white petals; and doubly coiled androecial hood.The epithet honors Michael Nee, with whom I developed many of my botanical interests while both of us were graduate students studying under the direction of Hugh H. Iltis at the University of Wisconsin.
Eschweilera neei is characterized by its leaves with a reddish cast abaxially; small fruits; ascending, relatively large Calyx-lobes; white petals; and doubly coiled androecial hood.The epithet honors Michael Nee, with whom I developed many of my botanical interests while both of us were graduate students studying under the direction of Hugh H. Iltis at the University of Wisconsin.
Distribution:
Panama Central America| Colón Panama Central America| Herrera Panama Central America| Panamá Panama Central America| Veraguas Panama Central America| Colombia South America| Chocó Colombia South America|
Panama Central America| Colón Panama Central America| Herrera Panama Central America| Panamá Panama Central America| Veraguas Panama Central America| Colombia South America| Chocó Colombia South America|