Pleuranthodendron lindenii (Turcz.) Sleumer
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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. Linden 1639, Mexico, Chiapas, Zulusuchiapa, fl (holotype, CW, n v; isotypes, G, K, P).
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Synonyms
Pineda lindenii Turcz., Banara mexicana A.Gray, Hasseltia pyramidalis Hemsl., Hasseltia mexicana (A.Gray) Standl., Hasseltia dioica (Benth.) Sleumer, Hasseltiopsis leucothyrsa Sleumer, Hasseltiopsis albomicans Sleumer, Banara leucothyrsa (Sleumer) J.F.Macbr., Hasseltia quinquenervia Standl. & L.O.Williams, Hasseltiopsis mucronata Cuatrec., Pleuranthodendron mexicanum (A.Gray) L.O.Williams
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Description
Description - Shrub or generally tree 3.0-5.0, rarely -10.0, occasionally -30.0 m tall; trunk up to 65.0 cm, sometimes with low buttresses; crown usually spreading; bark thin, reddish-brown, flaky. Branchlets slender, tips puberulent, lower parts early glabrescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to -elliptic, rarely elliptic, apex more or less abruptly and shortly subacutely or more obtusely acuminate, base cuneate to almost rounded, sometimes a little unequal, with a pair of large basal glands, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, somewhat shining on both faces, glabrous above, puberulent though finally glabrescent beneath, or often glabrous from the beginning on both faces, (7.0-)9.0-15.0(-24.0) cm long, 2.5-7.0(-12.0) cm broad, remotely glandular-subsinuate-subserrate or -subcrenulate mainly in the upper half of the lamina or practically entire, 3(-5)-nerved from base (the outer often rather indistinct), with 2-4 upper shorter pairs beyond middle of midrib, all nerves rather conspicuously inarching within the margin and prominent beneath, transverse veins numerous and subparallel to each other, veinlets densely reticulate and slightly elevate; petiole slender, (1.0-)2.0-3.5(-6.5) cm long; stipules minute, subulate, caducous. Panicles thyrsoid, laxly many-flowered, terminal, sometimes enriched with such of the upper axils, 6.0-15.0(-30.0) cm long, up to 15.0 cm wide, shortly peduncled, all over gray-puberulent to -tomentellous; pedicels slender, up to 8.0 mm long. Flowers white or cream, a little fragrant. Sepals 4-6, subovate-oblong, bluntish, white- or gray-puberulous to -tomentellous on both faces, 4.0-6.0 mm long, 1.5-2.0(-2.5) mm broad. Petals 4-6, similar to though generally a little narrower than the sepals. Ovary subglobose, tomentellous, tapering to the slender style (1.5-2.5 mm). Capsule subglobose, often a little depressed distally and with a slight vertical depression on one side, tomentellous or finally glabrous, somewhat rugose on the surface, (4.0-)5.0-7.0(-10.0) mm long, 4.0-6.0(-8.0) mm wide, green turning red to blackish; seed 1.
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Distribution
S Mexico to Colombia, also in Ecuador and Amazonian Peru and Brazil; in wet to dry lowland forest, rarely up to 1500 m alt.
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