Casearia corymbosa Kunth
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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. Bonpland 1705, Colombia, Tolimá, Honda, fl (hololectotype, P-Humb & P, fragm F); Bonpland 1477, Colombia, Bolivar, prope Mompox, Rio Magdalena, fl (holosyntype, P; isosyntype, B, lost, phot F 13669).
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Synonyms
Casearia nitida (L.) Jacq., Casearia salicifolia Turcz., Casearia pringlei Briq., Casearia lindeniana Briq., Casearia orizabana Briq., Casearia dubia DC., Casearia banquitana E.H.L.Krause, Casearia laevis Standl., Casearia dolichophylla Standl., Casearia arguta Kunth, Casearia arborea (Rich.) Urb., Casearia mollifolia Standl., Casearia phegocarpa Standl., Casearia gentlei Lundell, Casearia banquitana E.H.L.Krause
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Description
Species Description - Shrub or small tree, rarely up to 20.0 m high with trunk up to 30.0 cm diam; bark whitish, grayish or dull brown, smooth, coming off in small rectangular pieces. Branchlets glabrous or puberulous, rarely tomentellous, early grayish-corticate and subdensely set with small roundish lenticels. Leaves deciduous or subpersistent, rather variable in shape, size, texture and tomentum, usually oblong-elliptic to -obovate, apex short-, rarely long-acuminate, or obtuse to even rounded, base more or less distinctly oblique, broad-attenuate to obtuse-truncate, hardly cordate, membranaceous to chartaceous, rarely subcoriaceous, densely pellucid-punctate and -lineate, glabrous or pubescent mainly beneath to various degrees, glabrescent, sometimes more persistently pubescent or even soft-tomentulose or velutinous, serrate- to serrulate-crenate, or subentire, 4.0-10.0(-18.0) cm long, (2.0-)3.0-5.0(-7.0) cm broad, lateral nerves rather irregular, 8-10(-12) pairs, raised on both faces though mainly beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets rather obscure; petiole 4.0-6.0 mm long, glabrous or pubescent; stipules deltoid, minute, caducous. Inflorescence axillary, corymbose-corymbiform, (3-)6-12-flowered, 1.5-2.5 cm long incl peduncle up to 6.0 mm long; pedicels 2.0-4.0 mm long in anthesis, accrescent in fruit; bracteoles deltoid, small. Flowers white to yellowish or greenish. Sepals 5, elliptic to rounded, remaining erect-patent in anthesis, somewhat puberulous on both faces in general, 3.0-4.0 mm long, ca 2.0 mm broad. Stamens usually 8, subequal; filaments glabrous, 2.0-3.0 mm long; anthers oblongoid, 0.7 mm long. Disk-lobes linear-spathulate, hairy, 1.0-1.5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, sparsely hairy mainly upwards, attenuate to the short style; stigma capitate. Capsule globose to ellipsoid, subtrigonous, usually with 3 low prominent longitudinal ridges if several-seeded, or trigonous (in the dry state) with 3 more prominent ridges or wings when 1- or 2-seeded maybe in the same specimen, 1.0-1.5 cm long, 1.0-1.2 cm diam; pericarp yellowish-orange or reddish when fresh, dark red to blackish when dry, the 3 valves recurved in dehiscence, exposing the scarlet aril around the seed(s), the latter angular-ovoid, ca 0.7 cm long; testa covered with resinous glands.
Distribution and Ecology - From Mexico to Panama, Colombia and Venezuela; in wet or dry forest, gallery forest, in swampy jungle and in mangrove, in thickets, often in secondary growth, even in semi-arid plains or foothills (chaparral), in pine-oak forest, on sand dunes, locally abundant, up to 1500 m alt.
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Discussion
Casearia corymbosa is conceived here in a broad sense, with numerous, perhaps locally constant forms, adapted to a wide range of ecological conditions.
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Distribution
Mexico North America| Sinaloa Mexico North America| San Luis Potosí Mexico North America| Tamaulipas Mexico North America| Nayarit Mexico North America| Jalisco Mexico North America| Colima Mexico North America| Michoacán Mexico North America| México Mexico North America| Puebla Mexico North America| Veracruz Mexico North America| Guerrero Mexico North America| Oaxaca Mexico North America| Tabasco Mexico North America| Chiapas Mexico North America| Campeche Mexico North America| Yucatán Mexico North America| Quintana Roo Mexico North America| Guatemala Central America| Petén Guatemala Central America| Huehuetenango Guatemala Central America| Alta Verapaz Guatemala Central America| Izabal Guatemala Central America| San Marcos Guatemala Central America| Zacapa Guatemala Central America| Quezaltenango Guatemala Central America| Retalhuleu Guatemala Central America| Escuintla Guatemala Central America| Sacatepéquez Guatemala Central America| Guatemala Guatemala Central America| Santa Rosa Guatemala Central America| Jutiapa Guatemala Central America| Belize Central America| Corozal Belize Central America| Orange Walk Belize Central America| Cayo Belize Central America| Belize Belize Central America| Toledo Belize Central America| Honduras Central America| Santa Bárbara Honduras Central America| Cortés Honduras Central America| Ocotepeque Honduras Central America| Copán Honduras Central America| Atlántida Honduras Central America| Yoro Honduras Central America| Comayagua Honduras Central America| Morazán Honduras Central America| Olancho Honduras Central America| El Paraíso Honduras Central America| Choluteca Honduras Central America| Valle Honduras Central America| San Salvador El Salvador Central America| Nicaragua Central America| Costa Rica South America| Guanacaste Costa Rica Central America| Alajuela Costa Rica Central America| Puntarenas Costa Rica Central America| Panama Central America| Bocas del Toro Panamá Central America| Chiriquí Panamá Central America| Colón Panama Central America| Coclé Panamá Central America| Veraguas Panama Central America| Los Santos Panama Central America| Canal Zone Panamá Central America| Panamá Panama Central America| San Blás Panama Central America| Darién Panamá Central America| Colombia South America| Guajira Colombia South America| Magdalena Colombia South America| Atlántico Colombia South America| Bolívar Colombia South America| Antioquia Colombia South America| Caldas Colombia South America| Cundinamarca Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America| Tolima Colombia South America| Huila Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| Zulia Venezuela South America| Falcón Venezuela South America| Lara Venezuela South America| Trujillo Venezuela South America| Yaracuy Venezuela South America| Portuguesa Venezuela South America| Carabobo Venezuela South America| Cojedes Venezuela South America| Aragua Venezuela South America| Guárico Venezuela South America| Barinas Venezuela South America|