Banara vanderbiltii Urb.
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Authority
Sleumer, Hermann O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 22: 1-499. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Salicaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Heller & Heller 1370, Puerto Rico, Cataño, fl (holotype, B, lost; isotypes, F, K, NY, US).
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Description
Description - Shrub 3 or more m tall. Branchlets densely hairy to villous with yellowish-whitish spreading hairs. Leaves elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, or broadly elliptic, apex subacutely acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, chartaceous, becoming blackish in the dry state, softly pubescent on both faces initially, glabrescent and ultimately scabrous above, glandular-sinuate-dentate to -crenate, 4.0-12.0 cm long, (1.2-)2.0-5.0 cm broad, with a basal nerve on either side high-ascending and close to the edge, upper lateral nerves 3-5 pairs prominent beneath, veins more or less transverse from the midrib, forming a lax network with the veinlets which is slightly though distinctly raised beneath; petiole rather densely hairy, 4.0-7.0 mm long; stipules filiform, pubescent, persistent for some time, 3.0-4.5 mm long. Flowers solitary or rarely in twos, terminal to lateral branchlets which bear 1 or 2 leaves, or sometimes also in the axil of these leaves, yellow; pedicels articulate at base, robust, densely short-pubescent, 1.5-2.0 cm long. Sepals 3, triangular-ovate or subrhombic-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, spreading at anthesis, covered with a sordid-whitish tomentum on both faces, 5.0-7.0 mm long, 3.0-4.0 mm broad. Petals 3, ovate, bluntish, the edge set with a few glandular teeth, tomentulose on both faces, 6.0-8.0 mm long, 3.5-5.0 mm broad. Receptacle hairy. Ovary ovoid-subglobose, glabrous; style 6.0-7.0 mm long, minutely 4-lobed. Fruit unknown.
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Distribution
Puerto Rico, endemic; edge of forest.
Puerto Rico South America|