Pouteria juruana K.Krause

  • Authority

    Pennington, Terence D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52: 1-750. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Sapotaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pouteria juruana K.Krause

  • Type

    Type. Brazil. Amazonas: Jurua, Jurua Miry, Jun 1901 (fl), Ule 5562 (isotypes, G, K).

  • Description

    Species Description - Tree; young shoots sparsely appressed puberulous, soon glabrous, pale grey-brown, thinly scaling, without lenticels. Leaves loosely clustered, spirally arranged, 6-12 × 3.5-5.5 cm, elliptic or broadly oblanceolate, apex shortly and narrowly attenuate, base shortly attenuate, chartaceous, sparsely and closely appressed puberulous below or glabrous; venation eucamptodromous, midrib raised above (sometimes recessed), secondary veins 6-8 pairs, arcuate and slightly convergent, impressed on upper surface; intersecondaries absent; tertiaries oblique to horizontal. Petiole 49 mm long, not channelled, subglabrous. Fascicles 1-3-flowered, axillary. Pedicel ca. 3 mm long; finely appressed puberulous. Sepals four, 2-3.5 mm long, ovate, apex rounded, sparsely and minutely appressed puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Corolla tubular, 4-6 mm long, tube ca. 2.5-4 mm long, lobes four, ca. 1.5-2 mm long, broadly oblong, apex rounded, subglabrous. Stamens four, fixed in the lower half of the corolla tube; filaments glabrous; anthers ovate, glabrous. Staminodes four, linear, 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Disk absent. Ovary conical, tapering gradually into style; four-locular, sparsely appressed puberulous; style about equalling the corolla, glabrous; style-head simple. Fruit unknown. Field characters. Tree to 10 m high; flowers yellowish, in Jun (Brazil) and Nov (Colombia).

  • Objects

    Pending, E. H. G. Ule 5562, Pouteria juruana K.Krause, Sapotaceae (269.0), Magnoliophyta; South America, Brazil, Acre, Porto Walter Mun.

  • Distribution

    Known only from the type collection in western Amazonas, Brazil, and a single collection from Putumayo, Colombia. It is a plant of wet lowland forest, to 225 m altitude.

    Colombia South America| Putumayo Colombia South America| Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America|