Schoepfia multiflora Urb.
-
Authority
Sleumer, Hermann O. 1984. Olacaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 38: 1-159. (Published by NYBG Press)
-
Family
Schoepfiaceae
-
Scientific Name
-
Type
Type. Jamaica, Blue Mountains, ft brachystyl., Harris 5345 (holotype, B, photo B 1429/3, frag. NY; isotypes, F, photo F neg. 56767, K).
-
Synonyms
Schoepfia arborescens (J.Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
-
Description
Species Description - Glabrous tree 6-8(-10) m high; bark brownish-gray, outer part thick-corky and longitudinally furrowed. Branchlets subterete, early covered with whitish-grayish cork. Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, apex rather broadly and gradually attenuate or subacuminate, tip blunt, base broadly cuneate to rounded, the very base protracted to the short petiole, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, gray-olivaceous and dull when dry, sparsely to subdensely and finely tuberculate mainly on the upper surface, edge a little revolute, (5-)6-9(-13) x (2.5-)3-5(-7) cm, midrib flat or slightly raised above, prominent in its lower part beneath, lateral nerves ca. 5 pairs curved-ascending, rather inconspicuous on both surfaces; petiole 3-5 x l mm. Inflorescences in form of one to several clusters from foliate or mostly defoliate axils, each cluster bearing one to few flowers on top of a very short peduncle (0.5-1, rarely -2 mm long), which is subtended by several scarious small bracts; pedicels 0.2-0.5 mm long. Bracts of the epicalyx more or less confluent to a sinuately-lobed ciliolate cup, 1 mm long. Corolla ovoid-urceolate or subcampanulate (both in the brachy- and dolichostylous flowers), yellow or greenish-yellow, orange at apex, 4-5 mm long, ca. 3 mm diam., the 4 or 5 lobes distinct for ca. ¼ of the corolla length, ovate-triangular, reflexed. Disk and top of ovary orange, glabrous; style ca. 2 mm long in the brachystylous, attaining the orifice of the corolla in the dolichostylous form. Drupe ellipsoid-subovoid, 9-10 x 7-8 mm, on stoutish peduncle 2-3 mm long.
-
Distribution
Jamaica, limited to the central part; occasional in woodlands on rocky limestone, 520-830(-1060) m alt.
Jamaica South America|