Cabralea canjerana (Vell.) Mart.
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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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Description
Species Description - Young branches appressed puberulous, pubescent, velutinous, or rarely villose, indumentum caducous or persistent, lenticels sometimes present. Leaves usually paripinnate with limited apical growth, less frequently imparipinnate and then terminal leaflet often reduced or vestigial, 10-80 cm long; petiole semiterete, rhachis terete, appressed puberulous, pubescent, velutinous, rarely villose or glabrous; petiolule (0.5-)l-4(-5) mm long. Leaflets opposite or subopposite, (5-)6-12(-13) pairs, usually oblong, rarely lanceolate or elliptic, often falcate, apex usually long, narrowly attenuate or acuminate, less frequently obtusely cuspidate or acute, base asymmetric, usually narrowly attenuate and decurrent rarely cuneate, rounded or truncate, chartaceous to coriaceous, 3.8-22 cm long, 1-6.5 cm broad, upper surface glabrous or with sparse to dense short pubescence on the midrib and/or lamina, upper lamina often with sparse to dense minute crateriform excrescences (verruculae porosae), lower surface often glabrous and then nearly always with a tuft of hairs in axil of secondary veins, softly long pubescent, or velutinous rarely villose, often bearing numerous minute red papillae, moderately to densely glandular-punctate and -striate; venation eucamptodromous, midrib slightly prominent; secondaries (8-)9-14(-16) on either side of midrib, ascending, straight or slightly arcuate, parallel or slightly convergent; intersecondaries moderate to long; tertiaries obscure or absent. Flowers bisexual or ?unisexual, plants hermaphrodite or ?dioecious; inflorescence usually axillary less frequently clustered on woody excrescences on branches or trunk, (2-)6-40(-90) cm long, a slender to broad, usually laxly-branched, panicle, lateral branches usually widely spreading often bearing dense clusters of flowers, densely pubescent to glabrous; pedicel (0.5-) 1-3(-4) mm long. Calyx patelliform, sepals 5, free, quincuncial, 1-2(-2.5) mm long, broadly ovate to suborbicular, apex acute to rounded, sparsely to densely puberulous or pubescent, ciliate. Petals 5, free, usually quincuncial or imbricate, rarely contorted, 5-10 mm long, 1.5-2.5(-3.5) mm broad, oblong or sometimes spathulate, apex rounded, glabrous. Staminal tube cylindrical or less frequently narrowed at throat, (4-)4.5-7(-9) mm long, 1.5-3(-4) mm broad, terminated by (9-) 10(-12) short truncate, emarginate or bilobed appendages alternating with anthers, glabrous or rarely with a few minute hairs outside; anthers (9-)10(-12), 0.8-1.2 mm long, glabrous. Nectary cyathiform, (0.5-)1-2 mm long, glabrous, outside, short pubescent inside with downward pointing hairs. Ovary semi-inferior, (4-)5-locular, loculi with 2 superposed ovules, sparsely to densely pubescent; style slender, pubescent in lower half or glabrous; style-head discoid. Capsule globose or ellipsoid with a rounded apex and tapering base sometimes with a short stout stipe, becoming wrinkled on drying and dark brown, with or without prominent pale lenticels, glabrous, 1.8-4.5 cm diam., (4-)5-valved, valves with 1-2 superposed seeds; pericarp 1-5 mm thick, endocarp thin membraneous. Seed 0.8-1.7 cm long, 0.5-1 cm broad, partially surrounded by a fleshy arillode leaving only abaxial surface uncovered; arillode free except for thin line of attachment from micropyle to chalaza; seed coat thin, membraneous. Embryo with thick plano-convex, collateral cotyledons; radicle apical, extending to the surface.