Lindackeria laurina C.Presl

  • Authority

    Sleumer, Hermann O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 22: 1-499. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Achariaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lindackeria laurina C.Presl

  • Type

    Type.  S. Mexico, Western coast, Haenke sn, fl (holotype, PR, n v).

  • Synonyms

    Mayna laurina (C.Presl) Benth., Lindackeria vernicosa H.Karst., Oncoba laurina (C.Presl) Eichler, Oncoba vernicosa (H.Karst.) Eichler, Mayna vernicosa H.Karst., Lindackeria vageleri Burret, Lindackeria perijaensis Pittier, Lindackeria nitida Killip & R.E.Schult.

  • Description

    Description - Tree, generally 3.0-8.0 rarely up to 35.0 m tall; trunk 5.0-35.0 cm diam, maybe somewhat fluted; bark gray or brownish; branchlets angular, striate, grayish, tips and buds often resinous. Leaves oblong to elliptic or oblong-ovate, sometimes ovate, apex long-acuminate, base broadly cuneate-obtuse to rounded, papyraceous to chartaceous, sometimes subcoriaceous, rather shiny above, paler beneath, with minute resinous points or often viscid on both faces, lacking the fine pubescence underneath which is obvious in all other species, entire to undulate, 10.0-25.0(-31.0) cm long, 4.5-9.0(-11.0) cm broad, lateral nerves 5-6 pairs curved-ascendent and looping within the margin, raised beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets rather lax and slightly raised beneath; petiole 3.5-9.0(-11.0) cm long. Inflorescences (sub) terminal, racemose or paniculate, rather many-flowered, 10.0-22.0 cm long; pedicels slender, 0.5-1.5 cm long; flower buds subglobose. Sepals 3, elliptic to obovate, cucullate, glabrous or faintly puberulous on both faces, often vernicose, 6.0-7.0(-9.0) mm long, 4.0-5.5 mm broad. Petals ca 6, (narrowly) elliptic to oblong-subspathulate, apex obtuse to rounded, margin rather distinctly undulate, white, glabrous, shining (7.0-)9.0-12.0 mm long, 2.5-5.5 mm broad. Stamens 25-40; filaments free or hardly connate at the base, glabrous or a little puberulous, 2.0-4.5 mm long; anthers glabrous or obscurely puberulous, 3.0-4.0 mm long. Ovary substipitate, ovoid-subglobose, densely appressedly soft-echinate, puberulous all over; style minutely puberulous especially in the lower half, 5.0-6.0 mm long. Capsule subglobose, pale green, tuberculate and subdensely echinate, puberulous, often vernicose, 1.4-2.2 cm diam incl the bristles or flexible spines, the latter rather laxly set, conical at the base, hairy, 4.0-8.0 mm long; pericarp fibrose, 1.0-1.5 mm thick; seeds 1 to 4, subangular, 4.0-7.0 mm long, in a red pulp.

  • Discussion

    Uses. The leaves are used in Panama to cure snakebite. The fruits have a bad flavour. The wood is hard, heavy, yellow.

  • Distribution

    SW Mexico (not recollected in recent times), Guatemala to Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela; in wet lowland forest, also secondary forest, swamp forest, pine-forest, up to 750 m alt. Fig 1.

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