Monographs Details:
Authority:
Sleumer, Hermann O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 22: 1-499. (Published by NYBG Press)
Sleumer, Hermann O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 22: 1-499. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Lacistemataceae
Lacistemataceae
Synonyms:
Lacistema ellipticum Schnizl.
Lacistema ellipticum Schnizl.
Description:
Species Description - Shrub or generally a small tree, rarely up to 15.0 m tall; trunk up to 10.0 cm diam; bark gray. Branchlets flexuous, appressedly brownish-tomentulose at tips, glabrescent and gray-corticated below. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, apex subcaudate-acuminate, tip acute, base broadly cuneate to obtuse or rounded, dark brown in dry specimens, thin-chartaceous, laxly appressedly brown- to fulvous-pubescent mainly at the midrib above, glabrescent and shining there with age, persistently brownish-fulvous-tomentulose and soft to the touch beneath as in L. grandifolium, rarely (i e in the southern part of the area of distribution) less densely set with more scattered appressed hairs all over the undersurface, edge slightly revolute, entire or rarely remotely subserrulate, 6.0-12.0 (-14.0) cm long, (1.5-)2.0-3.5(-4.0) cm broad, lateral nerves 4-5(-6) pairs slightly raised above, prominent beneath, veins and veinlets coarsely reticulate, very little raised on both faces though often more or less obscured by the tomentum beneath; petiole hairy, 5.0-8.0(-10.0) mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, pubescent, 6.0-7.0 mm long, caducous. Spikes (8-) 10-20 per axil, yellowish, cylindrical, compact, (2.0-)3.0-7.0(-10.0) mm long; rhachis hairy; flower-subtending bract ovate, obtuse. Sepals 4 (or 5), ovate- to linear-lanceolate, subdenticulate. Disk a low 3- or 4-lobed cup. Ovary hairy; style moderately elongate, glabrous, the 3 stigmas recurved. Fruit ovoid-subglobose, subtrigonous, sub-stipitate, laxly hairy initially, glabrescent, purplish or dark red, 8.0-10.0 mm long; seeds 2 or 3, white, ca 5.0 mm long.
Distribution and Ecology - Brazil (Pará, Maranhão, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro/Guanabara); mainly in lowland forest, also in coastal forest (Bahia) and secondary forest, in thickets, on sandy plains (restinga), rarely up to 950 m alt.
Species Description - Shrub or generally a small tree, rarely up to 15.0 m tall; trunk up to 10.0 cm diam; bark gray. Branchlets flexuous, appressedly brownish-tomentulose at tips, glabrescent and gray-corticated below. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, apex subcaudate-acuminate, tip acute, base broadly cuneate to obtuse or rounded, dark brown in dry specimens, thin-chartaceous, laxly appressedly brown- to fulvous-pubescent mainly at the midrib above, glabrescent and shining there with age, persistently brownish-fulvous-tomentulose and soft to the touch beneath as in L. grandifolium, rarely (i e in the southern part of the area of distribution) less densely set with more scattered appressed hairs all over the undersurface, edge slightly revolute, entire or rarely remotely subserrulate, 6.0-12.0 (-14.0) cm long, (1.5-)2.0-3.5(-4.0) cm broad, lateral nerves 4-5(-6) pairs slightly raised above, prominent beneath, veins and veinlets coarsely reticulate, very little raised on both faces though often more or less obscured by the tomentum beneath; petiole hairy, 5.0-8.0(-10.0) mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, pubescent, 6.0-7.0 mm long, caducous. Spikes (8-) 10-20 per axil, yellowish, cylindrical, compact, (2.0-)3.0-7.0(-10.0) mm long; rhachis hairy; flower-subtending bract ovate, obtuse. Sepals 4 (or 5), ovate- to linear-lanceolate, subdenticulate. Disk a low 3- or 4-lobed cup. Ovary hairy; style moderately elongate, glabrous, the 3 stigmas recurved. Fruit ovoid-subglobose, subtrigonous, sub-stipitate, laxly hairy initially, glabrescent, purplish or dark red, 8.0-10.0 mm long; seeds 2 or 3, white, ca 5.0 mm long.
Distribution and Ecology - Brazil (Pará, Maranhão, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro/Guanabara); mainly in lowland forest, also in coastal forest (Bahia) and secondary forest, in thickets, on sandy plains (restinga), rarely up to 950 m alt.
Distribution:
Brazil South America| Pará Brazil South America| Maranhão Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Minas Gerais Brazil South America| Rio de Janeiro Brazil South America|
Brazil South America| Pará Brazil South America| Maranhão Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Minas Gerais Brazil South America| Rio de Janeiro Brazil South America|