Casearia rufescens Cambess.
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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. Saint-Hilaire sn, Brazil, Minas Gerais, in campis prope pagum Sao Joao, fl (holotype, P, phot F 34902, fragm F).
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Synonyms
Casearia pohliana Eichler, Casearia ferruginea Briq.
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Description
Species Description - Shrub 1.0-1.5 m tall. Branchlets yellowish-ferrugineous-pubescent to -tomentulose at tips, glabrescent and brownish-corticate below, lenticels sparse. Leaves subovate-oblong or -elliptic, or oblong, rarely obovate, shortly subacutely or obtusely acuminate, base broadly attenuate to rounded, rarely subcordate, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrous except the hairy lower part of midrib, shining and brownish-olivaceous in the dry state above, more greenish-olivaceous and usually softly yellowish-tomentulose all over the undersurface though glabrescent there with age, laxly pellucid-punctate and -lineate though sometimes indistinctly so, glandular-serrate-crenate or -crenulate, 2.0-5.0(-6.0) cm long, 1.5-2.5(-3.0) cm broad, lateral nerves 5-6(-7) pairs rather obscure above, looping before the margin and prominent beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets strongly raised beneath in fully mature i e glabrescent laminas; petiole 1.0-1.5(-2.0) mm long, shortly hispidulous-hairy; stipules linear-lanceolate, pubescent, 4.0-5.0 mm long, 1.0 mm broad at base, caducous. Flowers (2-)3-6(-8) per axillary fascicle, all over yellowish-tomentellous; bracts suborbicular, 1.0 mm diam; pedicels articulate a little above base, 1.5-2.0 mm long at anthesis, accrescent to 4.0 mm in fruit. Sepals 5, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, tomentellous outside, subglabrous inside, ca 3.0 mm long incl the basal connate part, cream-coloured. Stamens 8 or 10, alternately a little inequilong; filaments glabrous, 2.0 mm long; anthers with an apical glabrous or hairy gland. Disk-lobes clavate, tomentose, 1.5 mm long. Ovary conical, densely pubescent except base, attenuate to a short style; stigma capitate. Fruit ovoid, dry, covered for the lower 2/3 part by the slightly accrescent erect sepals, ca 6.0 mm long, 4.0 mm broad; seeds 2 or 3, short-pubescent; testa striate-foveolate; aril membranous.
Distribution and Ecology - Brazil, on the Planalto (Serra do Espinhaco) of Minas Gerais; in cerrado, on red clay or brown sand, locally common, 950-1100 m alt.
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Distribution
Brazil South America| Minas Gerais Brazil South America|