Monographs Details:
Authority:
Prance, Ghillean T. & Mori, S. A. 1979. Lecythidaceae - Part I. The actinomorphic-flowered New World Lecythidaceae (Asteranthos, Gustavia, Grias, Allantoma & Cariniana). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 21: 1-270. (Published by NYBG Press)
Prance, Ghillean T. & Mori, S. A. 1979. Lecythidaceae - Part I. The actinomorphic-flowered New World Lecythidaceae (Asteranthos, Gustavia, Grias, Allantoma & Cariniana). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 21: 1-270. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Lecythidaceae
Lecythidaceae
Description:
Description - Large trees, to 50 m tall. Bark brown, with vertical fissures, shedding in small flakes. Sap-wood cream-colored, the heartwood red. Leaf blades narrowly ovate to lanceolate or elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 12.5-23.5 x 4.5-8.5 cm, glabrous, chartaceous, with 10-20 pairs of lateral veins; apex acuminate to attenuate; base acute to obtuse; margins entire to minutely crenulate, inconspicuously crisped; petiole 9-15 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescences unknown. Flowers unknown. Fruits 4-locular, globose to turbinate, 811 x 8.5-11.5 cm, the pericarp smooth, 6-12 mm thick, operculum flat, with spine-tipped umbo. Seeds 3.5-4 x 2.5-3 cm, reddish brown, with 5 longitudinal veins, these raised above surface of testa.
Description - Large trees, to 50 m tall. Bark brown, with vertical fissures, shedding in small flakes. Sap-wood cream-colored, the heartwood red. Leaf blades narrowly ovate to lanceolate or elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 12.5-23.5 x 4.5-8.5 cm, glabrous, chartaceous, with 10-20 pairs of lateral veins; apex acuminate to attenuate; base acute to obtuse; margins entire to minutely crenulate, inconspicuously crisped; petiole 9-15 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescences unknown. Flowers unknown. Fruits 4-locular, globose to turbinate, 811 x 8.5-11.5 cm, the pericarp smooth, 6-12 mm thick, operculum flat, with spine-tipped umbo. Seeds 3.5-4 x 2.5-3 cm, reddish brown, with 5 longitudinal veins, these raised above surface of testa.
Discussion:
Inflorescences and flowers of L. mesophylla have not yet been collected and therefore its affinities are not positively known. However, it is morphologically similar to L. minor, L. ollaria, and L. tuyrana.
Inflorescences and flowers of L. mesophylla have not yet been collected and therefore its affinities are not positively known. However, it is morphologically similar to L. minor, L. ollaria, and L. tuyrana.
Distribution:
Costa Rica South America| Puntarenas Costa Rica Central America| Panama Central America| Darién Panamá Central America| Colombia South America| Santander Colombia South America|
Costa Rica South America| Puntarenas Costa Rica Central America| Panama Central America| Darién Panamá Central America| Colombia South America| Santander Colombia South America|
Common Names:
coco cristal
coco cristal