Mayna odorata Aubl.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Achariaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Mayna odorata Aubl.

  • Type

    Type. Aublet sn, French Guiana, fl cr (holotype, BM).

  • Synonyms

    Brosimum echinocarpum Poepp. & Endl., Mayna denticulata Benth., Carpotroche odorata Endl. ex Klotzsch, Dendrostylis apeibaefolia H.Karst. & Triana, Dendrostylis microphylla Karsten & Triana, Mayna echinata Spruce ex Benth., Dendrostylis denticulata (Benth.) Triana & Planch., Dendrostylis echinata Benth. ex Eichler, Dendrostylis odorata (Aubl.) Eichler, Alicastrum echinocarpum (Poepp. & Endl.) Kuntze, Mayna microphylla (Karsten & Triana) Prantl, Mayna apeibaefolia (H.Karst. & Triana) Prantl, Carpotroche denticulata (Benth.) Benth. ex Walp., Carpotroche subintegra Standl., Sloanea longicuspis Standl., Mayna longicuspis (Standl.) Standl., Mayna glomerata Killip & R.E.Schult.

  • Description

    Description - Shrub or small tree, 2.0-6.0, rarely -12.0 m tall, with spreading crown; trunk or stem straight, 3.0-7.0(-15.0) cm diam, not branched in the lower half; bark thin, gray to dark brown or nigrescent. Branchlets slender, tips grayish-brownish-pubescent to -hirsutulous, glabrescent below, sparsely lenticellate. Leaves distantly arranged towards the end of the branchlets, oblong to obovate-oblong, apex rather gradually to more abruptly acutely acuminate, base attenuate, though the very base obtuse, membranaceous, becoming chartaceous with age, impunctate, entire or remotely denticulate to rather coarsely sinuate-dentate, especially beyond the middle of lamina, initially hirtellous on midrib and nerves of both faces, early glabrescent above, tardily so beneath, often sparsely tuberculate beneath in dry specimens, 12.0-25.0 cm long, 3.5-6.5(-8.5, rarely -10.0) cm broad, lateral nerves 7-9 pairs curved-ascending, rather faintly looping within the margin, slightly prominent beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets close, generally obscurely raised beneath; petiole rather slender, a little swollen distally, hirtellous initially, glabrescent, 1.0-2.0 (-3.5, very rarely -4.0) cm long; stipules subulate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, persistent for some time on youngest parts of the branchlets. Flowers dioecious, the [male] in axillary 3-5, the [female] in 2-3-flowered fascicles, or the [female] sometimes solitary, all over short-pubescent on the outside; pedicels 2.0-4.0(-7.0, in the [female] up to 12.0) mm long. Sepals 3, ovate-suborbicular, 5.0-7.0 mm diam. Petals (5-)7-9, obovate, white, glabrous, 8.0-9.0(-11.0) mm long, 5.0-7.0 mm broad, slightly longer in the [male] flowers (up to 13.0 x 10.0 mm), [male] flowers: stamens (20-)30; filaments strigulose, 0.5-2.0(-3.0) mm long; anthers elongate-oblong, strigulose, 2.0-3.0(-4.0) mm long. [female] flowers: ovary ovoid, short-tomentose and generally also muriculate; styles 2 or 3, forked, stigmas lacerate. Fruit on peduncle ca 1.0 cm long, globular, pale orange, 1.5-2.0(-3.0) cm diam, subdensely (rarely very laxly) set with laxly pubescent and somewhat flattened, finally caducous bristles 4.0-10.0 mm long; pericarp coriaceous, 0.5 mm thick; seeds 4-8, polyhedric, red to orange, up to 1.0 cm long, the testa more or less deeply striate, lustrous.

  • Distribution

    Scattered from Honduras to Colombia and Venezuela, in E Ecuador and E Peru, in Amazonian Brazil and the Guianas, southwards to E Bolivia; undergrowth in lowland and submontane, rarely montane forest, also in disturbed growth, locally not rare, up to 800, rarely to 1550 m alt.

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