Banara guianensis Aubl.
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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. Aublet sn, French Guiana, Ile de Cayenne, fl (holotype, BM; isotypes, P, W).
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Synonyms
Banara fagifolia Vahl, Xyladenius glandulosus Desv. ex Ham., Kuhlia mollis Poepp., Banara mollis (Poepp.) Tul., Laetia glandulosa Poepp. ex Tul., Trilix glandulosa Dombey ex Griseb., Banara pubescens Spruce ex Benth., Banara guianensis var. mollis Eichler, Banara pyramidata Rusby, Banara guianensis var. spruceana Briq., Banara glandulosa (Desv. ex Ham.) Speg., Banara tulasnei J.F.Macbr., Trilix macrobotrys Ruiz & Pav.
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Description
Description - Shrub or small loosely branched tree 2.0-6.0, rarely up to 15.0 m, occasionally up to 30.0 m tall; trunk up to 60.0 cm diam; bark smooth, pale grayish-brownish. Branchlets subterete, more or less densely appressedly whitish-grayish-pubescent or even -tomentose, generally glabrescent; lenticels numerous, whitish. Leaves variable in shape and density of tomentum, oblong, ovate, or ovate-, sometimes lanceolate-oblong or elliptic, even oblong-obovate, apex bluntly short-acuminate, inconspicuously mucronulate, base not rarely unequal, rounded, subtruncate or subcordate, one smaller side attenuate, the larger one more or less rounded, with 1 (rarely 2) cupular (sometimes a little stalked) gland(s) at very base of lamina or apex or petiole, firmly membranaceous to chartaceous, discolorous, rather sparsely appressed-pubescent above, laxly to generally densely so beneath for a long time, usually grayish-greenish-, rarely almost rusty-tomentellous or even -tomentulose there, (5.0-)7.0-16.0(-20.0) cm long, 3.0-7.0(-8.0) cm broad, coarsely glandular-crenate-serrate, lateral nerves 8-12 (rarely -14) pairs with maybe additional shorter ones between, subparallel and rather close to each other, more or less arcuate-ascending, prominent beneath, veins transverse or obliquely so, numerous, forming a rather lax and slightly or hardly raised reticulation with the veinlets beneath; petiole more or less densely pubescent, 2.0-5.0(-7.0, rarely -12.0) mm long; stipules subulate or narrow-triangular, tomentellous, up to 4.0 mm long, rather caducous. Panicles (or sometimes simple racemes) terminal, pyramidate, all over appressedly whitish-grayish-tomentellous, slender, laxly many-flowered, (10.0-)15.0-20.0(-30.0) cm long; pedicels slender at anthesis, stoutish in fruit, 3.0-5.0 mm long; bracts subulate, 1.0-1.5 mm long. Flowers white to yellowish, sometimes greenish or even pale purple, fragrant. Sepals 3 (rarely 4), oblong-ovate, obtuse to subacute, appressed-tomentellous on both faces or sometimes subglabrous inside, 3.0-4.0 mm long, 2.5-3.0 mm broad at anthesis, accrescent to 5.0 by 4.0 mm in fruit. Petals 3 (rarely 4), more or less obovate, apex rounded, crispate along the edge, similar in tomenturn to though slightly longer than the sepals. Receptacle white-villous. Ovary ovoid; style slender, ca 2.0 mm long. Fruit baccate, ovoid-subglobose, green when fresh, blackish when dry, 5.0-8.0(-10.0) mm diam, pulpy within the thin-leathery pericarp; seeds numerous, ovoid, 1.0-1.5 mm long; testa black, shining, striate lengthwise.
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Discussion
Wood not durable, used for firewood and posts.
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Distribution
Widespread from Nicaragua to Panama and in the northern half of tropical S America, apparently absent from the basin of Rio Negro, southern limit E Peru to SE Bolivia; in lowland and montane, rainy, dry, swampy and secondary forest, forest border with savannah, rarely up to 1500 m alt.
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