Casearia pauciflora 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. St.-Hilaire sn, Brazil, Minas Gerais, no locality known, fl (holotype, P, phot F 34900, fragm F).
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Description
Species Description - Shrub or small tree up to 6.0 m tall. Branchlets slender, flexuous, tips laxly pubescent, older parts gray-corticate, lenticels rather sparse. Leaves persistent, oblong or lanceolate-oblong or -elliptic, apex acuminate for 1.5-2.0 cm, tip acute, base more or less broadly attenuate to the petiole, thin-chartaceous to subcoriaceous, dark brown and dull when dry, paler beneath, pubescent or puberulent beneath initially, early glabrescent and finally practically glabrous, slightly revolute at margin, remotely repand-denticulate or subentire, rather laxly pellucid-punctate and -lineate or sometimes almost impunctate, 6.0-12.0 cm long, 2.0-4.5(-5.5) cm broad, lateral nerves 3-5 pairs arcuately ascending, the lowest pair more steeply so, slightly raised beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets inconspicuous; petiole puberulent initially, 3.0-5.0 (rarely -10.0) mm long; stipules lanceolate-subulate, puberulent, 2.0-3.0 mm long, caducous or rarely persistent for some time. Fascicles axillary, 2-5-flowered; bracts broadly ovate, subacuminate, scarious, tomentellous, 1.0-2.0 mm long, forming a small cushion; pedicels articulate a little above base, tomentellous, 2.0-5.0 mm long. Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, patently erect at anthesis, slightly connate at base, tomentellous on both faces, dark when dry except the much paler edge, white to greenish, 4.0-5.0(-6.0) mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm broad. Stamens 10, alternately slightly inequilong; filaments glabrous, 2.0-2.5 mm long; anthers broadly elliptic, eglandular, 0.5 mm long. Disk-lobes linear-oblong, white-tomentose, 1.3 mm long. Ovary ovoid-subglobose, hispidulous-villous; style short (0.5 mm); stigma capitate. Capsule subglobose, apiculate, with 3 ribs, sparsely hairy, (2.0-)2.5-3.0 cm diam, valves coriaceous, provided with a yellowish membrane inside; seeds 6-12, ovoid-trigonous, smooth, ca 1.0 cm long.
Distribution and Ecology - Brazil (Rio de Janeiro/Guanabara, Espirito Santo, not recollected recently in Minas Gerais); in forest of the coastal range and in the restinga, not rare around Rio de Janeiro.
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Distribution
Brazil South America| Rio de Janeiro Brazil South America| Espirito Santo Brazil South America|