Ecclinusa lanceolata (Mart. & Eichler) Pierre
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Authority
Pennington, Terence D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52: 1-750. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Sapotaceae
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Scientific Name
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Synonyms
Passaveria lanceolata Mart. & Eichler
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots closely appressed puberulous, becoming glabrous, greyish to dark brown, rough and scaling, without lenticels. Stipules 1-2 cm long, lanceolate, often longitudinally striate, appressed puberulous on the abaxial surface, often with a broad glabrous margin. Leaves usually densely clustered at the shoot apex, spirally arranged, 16-42 × 6.5-16.5 cm, usually oblanceolate, rarely oblong-elliptic, apex narrowly attenuate to obtusely cuspidate, base usually narrowly attenuate, cuneate, or acute, less frequently obtuse, thinly coriaceous, glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs on the midrib below, venation eucamptodromous, sometimes with a marginal vein, midrib sunken on the upper surface or prominent but recessed, secondary veins 20-33 pairs, parallel, straight or slightly arcuate; intersecondaries absent; tertiaries oblique, parallel; higher order venation usually obscure or absent. Petiole 2-4 cm long, channelled, appressed puberulous. Fascicles axillary and in the axils of fallen leaves, 5-10-flowered. Flowers unisexual (? plant monoecious). Sepals five, 2.5-4 mm long, ovate or lanceolate, apex acute to rounded, appressed puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Corolla 3-5.5 mm long, tube 1-2.75 mm long, lobes 5-7, 1.75-2.75 mm long, ovate, apex acute, glabrous. Stamens five, fixed about halfway up the corolla tube or near the top, filaments 1.25-1.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers ovate to broadly lanceolate, usually apiculate, glabrous; the stamens absent in female flowers. Ovary ovoid to globose, 7-9-locular, densely long-strigose; style 0.5-1.25 mm long after anthesis, glabrous above; style-head simple or slightly lobed; ovules rudimentary in male flowers. Fruit 5-6 cm long, globose, apex rounded or obtuse, base truncate, thick walled, smooth, minutely puberulous to glabrous. Seeds several, 2-3 cm long, broadly ellipsoid or shaped like the segment of an orange, testa smooth, shining, ca. 0.5 mm thick; scar adaxial and extending round the base of the seed, 5-9 mm wide. Field characters. Tree to 35 m high and 50 cm diam. without buttresses. Bole cylindrical, bark dark brown or blackish, strongly dappled. Slash cream to orange, with copious sticky white latex. Flowers greenish-white to yellow, fruit orange-yellow with rather spongy mesocarp, the seeds surrounded by white pulp. Flowering mostly Aug to Nov, fruit maturing Jan to Jul.
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Discussion
The fruit is eaten locally in Amazonian Brazil.
Distribution and Ecology: Panama to the Guianas (not yet recorded from Surinam), Amazonian Peru and Brazil. A species of lowland seasonal evergreen forest on non-flooded or periodically flooded land in Brazil and the Guianas; present in wet montane forest up to 1300 m altitude in Peru, Colombia and Panama.
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Common Names
coquirana, coquirana braba, coquirana do igapo
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Objects
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Distribution
Panama Central America| Colón Panama Central America| Panamá Panama Central America| Colombia South America| Amazonas Colombia South America| Vaupés Colombia South America| Norte de Santander Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| Apure Venezuela South America| Mérida Venezuela South America| Táchira Venezuela South America| Distrito Federal Venezuela South America| Guyana South America| French Guiana South America| Peru South America| Huánuco Peru South America| Loreto Peru South America| Pasco Peru South America| Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America| Rondônia Brazil South America|