Trichilia schomburgkii C.DC. subsp. schomburgkii
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Authority
Pennington, Terence D. 1981. Meliaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 28: 1-359, 418-449, 459-470. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Meliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Schomburgk 752, Guyana, Roraima, fl (lectotype, G-DC, here designated; isolectotypes, G, K, NY, P).
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Synonyms
Trichilia subsessilifolia C.DC., Trichilia cuneifolia Pulle, Trichilia siqueiraei Ducke
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Description
Species Description - Tree to 20 m high with smooth, greyish-brown to greyish-green bark. Fully developed leaflets often vary in number from 1-7 on the immature trees. Flowers with sweet scent, calyx and corolla green or greenish-cream and staminal tube cream. Fruit greyish-green. The main flowering season is from July to September with the fruit maturing from October to January. However, in Venezuela, and occasionally elsewhere, flowering is from January to April and the fruits ripen from February to July. Tree to 20 m high with smooth, greyish-brown to greyish-green bark. Fully developed leaflets often vary in number from 1-7 on the immature trees. Flowers with sweet scent, calyx and corolla green or greenish-cream and staminal tube cream. Fruit greyish-green. The main flowering season is from July to September with the fruit maturing from October to January. However, in Venezuela, and occasionally elsewhere, flowering is from January to April and the fruits ripen from February to July.
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Common Names
Suipo, Biscochuelo negro, Babonese, Karababalli
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Distribution
From eastern Venezuela (Delta Amacuro and Bolivar) through the Guianas to Territorio Amapa, and Para, Brazil, with two recent records from central and southwestern Amazonian Brazil. A tree of non-flooded lowland forest or periodically flooded forest (varzea).
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