Aniba heringeri Vattimo
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Authority
Kubitzki, K. & Renner, Susanne S. 1982. Lauraceae I (Aniba and Aiouea). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 31: 1-125. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Lauraceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Brazil. Minas Gerais: Heringer 7692, fl, fr (holotype, RB; isotype, UB).
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Description
Species Description - Shrub or tree to 10 m; wood fragrant; branchlets sulcate, ca. 2 mm diam., light-brown tomentellous, glabrescent; terminal bud tomentellous, 7 mm long. Leaves evenly distributed along branchlets, rigid-chartaceous or coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, lanceolate, obovate-lanceolate, elliptic, or obovate, 1.9-4 times longer than wide, 8-21 x 2.5-7 cm, at margin subrevolute, at base acute, obtuse or rounded, apex acute or obtuse and shortly (to 1 cm) acuminate, glabrous, midrib excepted, above, microscopically papillose and along midrib, nerves and venation tomentellous beneath, lateral nerves 6-9 pairs, indistinctly fusing near margin, prominulous beneath; petioles sulcate, tomentellous, narrowly canaliculate, glabrescent, 0.8-2 cm long. Panicles subterminal in axils of caducous bracts or persistent leaves, few-flowered, little ramified (with groups of few flowers inserted directly on peduncle or on short lateral branches), light-brown, tomentellous, 3-8 cm long. Flowers light-brown, villous, 4-5 x 2-2.5 mm, floral tube villous within, pedicels 0.5-3 mm long; tepals erect, fleshy, subequal, ovate, laxly appressed-pilose within, villous at margin, 1.4-1.8 mm long; stamens of ser. I 1.5-1.8 mm long, with glabrous anthers, protruding, rounded connectives and villous filaments, of ser. II 1.3 mm long, with acute anthers, of ser. III with truncate, glabrous anthers and villous, biglandulate filaments; staminodes small or absent; pistil, base excepted, strigose, 3 mm long; stigma minute. Berry at maturity black, ellipsoid, 3x1.4 cm; cupule red, subhemispherical, indistinctly and narrowly double-margined (margin to 1 mm wide), 1.4 x 1.8 cm, tuberculate.
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Discussion
This species is characterized by its large flowers and villous floral parts. In the sterile or fruiting state, it is indistinguishable from Aniba parviflora and certain forms of A. panurensis. However, the distributional areas of the these species do not seem to overlap with that of A. heringeri.
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Distribution
In gallery forests of central Brazilian cerrado and caatinga vegetations. Flowers Apr, Aug-Jan; fruits Sep, Jan-Apr.
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