Zuelania guidonia (Sw.) Britton & Millsp.
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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. Swartz sn, Jamaica, (lectotype, S; syntypes, BM, SBT).
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Synonyms
Laetia guidonia Sw., Samyda icosandra Sw., Zuelania laetioides A.Rich., Laetia crenata A.Rich., Laetia longifolia A.Rich., Zuelania icosandra Clos, Thiodia laetioides Griseb., Zuelania crenata Griseb., Casearia icosandra (Sw.) Hemsl. ex Planch. & Triana, Guidonia latioides M.Gómez, Guidonia icosandra Kuntze, Casearia latioides Northr., Zuelania roussoviae Pittier, Casearia guidonia (Sw.) Lundell
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Description
Species Description - Shrub or generally tree 6.0-20.0(-35.0) m high; trunk cylindric, 25.0-60.0 cm diam; crown broad, low-doomed; bark thick, gray, rather smooth, oozing a yellow exudation when cut. Branchlets brownish-hirsute in the younger, sparsely lenticellate-verrucose in the older leafless parts, marked by big scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves deciduous, often fascicled towards the end of the branchlets, (narrowly) oblong to oblong-elliptic, apex shortly obtusely or subacutely acuminate, or rounded-obtuse, base somewhat asymmetric, obtuse to rounded or subcordate, (firmly) chartaceous, green above and grayish or brownish beneath when fresh, densely pellucid-punctate, pubescent to various degree on midrib, nerves, veins and veinlets on both faces, though more densely so beneath and there soft to the touch, serrulate-crenulate to subentire, (6.0-)10.0-25.0 cm long, (2.5-)3.0-6.0(-9.0) cm broad, lateral nerves (10-)12-15 curved-ascending pairs, prominent beneath, the rather oblique veins and the reticulation of veinlets only slightly raised beneath; petiole rather slender, densely brownish-pubescent, 1.0-2.0 cm long; stipules narrow-ovate, appressed-pubescent, 3.0-6.0 mm long, caducous. Inflorescences in globose, up to 15-flowered fascicles in generally defoliate axils at the apex of the branchlets. Flowers yellowish, shortly fulvous-hirsute; pedicels articulate below the middle, up to 1.8 cm long; bracts thin-scarious, short-hirsute, up to 4.0 mm long. Sepals 4 or 5, ovate, apex rounded, deflexed at anthesis, white, tomentose outside except the covered margins, 6.0-7.0 mm long, ca 2.5 mm broad. Stamens up to 4.0 mm long; filaments glabrous or sparsely pubescent; anthers ovate-oblong, apex obtuse, base cordate, ca 1.8 mm long; staminodes of about half as long as the filaments. Ovary ovoid, tomentellous, ca 4.0 mm long, 3.0 mm broad; stigma subsessile. Fruit baccate, depressedly globose, shallowly 3-sulcate, yellowish-green to dark green when fresh, finally splitting into 3 valves; seeds numerous, obvoid-angular, ca 4.0 mm long; aril orange.
Distribution and Ecology - Along the Atlantic coast from S Mexico to Panama, in the West Indies, and in N Venezuela, possibly in N Colombia; in forest, often pine forest, or in wet thickets, coppices and shrublands, on rocky limestone, up to ca 800 malt.
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Distribution
Mexico North America| San Luis Potosí Mexico North America| Tamaulipas Mexico North America| Veracruz Mexico North America| Tabasco Mexico North America| Chiapas Mexico North America| Yucatán Mexico North America| Guatemala Central America| Petén Guatemala Central America| Belize Central America| Honduras Central America| Comayagua Honduras Central America| Nicaragua Central America| Chontales Nicaragua Central America| Zelaya Nicaragua Central America| Panama Central America| Coclé Panamá Central America| Canal Zone Panamá Central America| Panamá Panama Central America| Darién Panamá Central America| Cuba South America| Piñar del Río Cuba South America| La Habana Cuba South America| Isla de Piños Cuba South America| Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| South Andros Bahamas South America| Jamaica South America| Cayman Islands South America| Haiti South America| Venezuela South America| Bolívar Venezuela South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America|