Dulacia candida (Poepp.) Kuntze

  • Authority

    Sleumer, Hermann O. 1984. Olacaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 38: 1-159. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Olacaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Dulacia candida (Poepp.) Kuntze

  • Type

    Type. Brazil. Amazonas: Ega, ad ripas flum. Tefe, fl dolichostyl., Poeppig 2795 (holotype, W, lost, frag. F; isotypes, B, photo B 1429/21, G, photo F neg. 27868, GOET, P).

  • Synonyms

    Liriosma candida Poepp., Liriosma pallida Miers, Liriosma acuta Miers, Liriosma spruceana Engl., Liriosma adhaerens Spruce ex Engl., Dulacia acuta (Miers) Kuntze, Dulacia adhaerens (Spruce ex Engl.) Kuntze, Dulacia spruceana (Engl.) Kuntze, Liriosma grandiflora Engl., Liriosma gracilis A.C.Sm., Dulacia adhaerens (Spruce ex Engl.) Kuntze

  • Description

    Species Description - Shrub 1-4 m tall, usually with erect, rarely virgate branches and Subscandent, or usually treelet or tree 4-10(-20) m; trunk to 45 cm diam.; bark gray. Branchlets slender, flexuous, striate lengthwise, hardly transversely wrinkled, tips patently puberulous or very shortly pubescent as are the young leaves, petioles, and whole inflorescence, older parts gray-corticate. Leaves lanceolate to oblong, not rarely elliptic-oblong or ovate, apex short- to long-acuminate, tip subacute, base cuneate or rounded, membranaceous to chartaceous, rather firmly so at full age, brownish-or yellowish-olivaceous and shiny above, paler and dull often more greenish-olivaceous beneath in dry specimens, shortly softly pubescent beneath initially but glabrescent there with age, glabrous except the midrib and often tuberculate above, finally glabrescent to practically glabrous on both surfaces, usually markedly wax-coated beneath when young, less distinctly or not so at maturity, 8-10 (-12, -15) x (2.5-)3-5(-8) cm, edge subrevolute, lateral nerves (5-)6(-7) pairs arcuate-ascending and looping before the margin, sometimes slightly impressed in mature leaves above, slightly raised beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets inconspicuous, a little prominent finally on both surfaces; petiole slender, hardly or not wrinkled, (2.5-)3-4 x 1 mm. Inflorescence racemose or subcorymbose-panicled from usually defoliate axils of lateral branchlets, sparsely 4-8(-12)-flow-ered, patently puberulous all over or short-pubescent, often more densely so on calyx and pedicels, sometimes glabrescent; rhachis slender, straight or slightly geniculate, (1.5-)2-3.5 cm long; pedicels ca. 2 mm long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, minute, caducous. Calyx turbinate, edge truncate, 2 mm long. Petals linear-lanceolate, puberulent or rarely subglabrous, white, cream, or bright yellow, 6-7 x 1-1.3 mm. Stamens ca. 5 mm long; filaments densely hairy. Staminodes hairy. Free top of ovary broadly conical to hemispherical, more or less distinctly abrupt with the style, densely white-hairy; style slender, glabrous or hairy below only, slightly exceeding the stamens in the dolichostylous, hardly reaching the base of the anthers in length in the brachystylous form. Drupe oblongoid, sometimes broadly or obovoidly so, broadly attenuate at base, usually orange, rarely more reddish, when fresh to 3 x 1—1.5 cm, when dry ca. 2 x 1-1,3(-1.5) cm, the dry pericarp often forming two vertical opposite obtuse wings, on peduncle 6-8 x 1.5 mm.

  • Distribution

    Widespread in Amazonian Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia; substage in rain forest or open woodland, often along rivers, in periodically inundated lowlands, on sandy soil.

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