Clarisia racemosa Ruiz & Pav.

Authority

Berg, Cornelius C. 2001. Moreae, Artocarpeae, and (Moraceae): With introductions to the family and and with additions and corrections to Flora Neotropica Monograph 7. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 83: 1-346. (Published by NYBG Press)

Family

Moraceae

Scientific Name

Clarisia racemosa Ruiz & Pav.

Type

Type. Peru. Huánuco: Chinchao-Pozuzo, Ruiz & Pavón s.n. (holotype, MA, seen as photograph in F; isotype?, F).

Synonyms

Soaresia nitida Allem, Sorocea nitida Warb., Clarisia nitida (Allem) J.F.Macbr.

Description

Species Description - Tree, to 40 m tall; bark conspicuously lenticellate, that of the base of the trunk and of the (larger) roots reddish. Leafy twigs 0.5-3.5 mm thick, minutely puberulous to subglabrous. Lamina elliptic to lanceolate, 4-14 × 2-6.5 cm, often broadest below the middle, sometimes slightly inequilateral, coriaceous to subcoriaceous; apex acuminate to subacute; base acute to obtuse to truncate (to emarginate); margin entire; upper surface glabrous; lower surface sparsely puberulous; venation ± prominent to plane above, but the midrib mostly ± impressed, the venation ± prominent beneath; lateral veins 9-18 pairs; tertiary venation reticulate; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, 1-2 mm thick, sparsely and minutely puberulous; stipules broadly ovate to subcordiform, 0.1-0.3 cm long, minutely puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences on (usually) leafless branchlets, sometimes on short-shoots (spurs), often on the older wood; peduncle 0.1-0.8 cm long, minutely puberulous; spike 1-10(-l 8) cm long; tepals 3-7, free or sometimes connate, variously shaped, 0.5-0.8 mm long, minutely puberulous; stamens 1-2(-3), filaments 0.3-1 mm long, anthers ca. 0.3-0.4 × 0.3-0.4 mm; bracts variously shaped, partly suborbicular and subpeltate, ca. 0.5-0.6 × 0.5-0.8 cm, often ± fimbriate, minutely puberulous, and with minute, embedded yellow dye-containing "glands." Pistillate inflorescences on (usually) leafless branchlets, sometimes on short-shoots (spurs), usually on the older wood; peduncle 0.4 cm long, to 1.5 cm long in fruit, minutely puberulous; flowers 1, or sometimes 2; perianth 3-4 mm long, subentire to 4-lobed, puberulous in the uppermost part, and with minute, embedded yellow dye-containing "glands"; ovary adnate to the perianth; style 1-3 mm long; stigmas filiform, 4-7 mm long; bracts 3-7, suborbicular to broadly ovate, often subpeltate, 0.8-1.2 mm long, minutely puberulous, and with minute, embedded yellow dye-containing "glands" Fruiting perianth subglobose to ellipsoid, 1.5-3(-4) × 1-1.7(-2.4) cm, glabrous, orange to red; endocarp woody.

Discussion

In the central part of the Amazon Basin (as near Manaus) two forms can be recognized: one with relatively small, narrow, and thin laminas with a relatively long acumen ("guariuba da fôlha fina") and the other with larger, broader, and thicker laminas with a relatively short acumen ("guariuba da fôlha larga"). However, intermediates occur.

Common Names

juandiego amarillo, ají, pelacara, guariuba, billo, cajimán, cajimán, bobo, moral, moral bobo, moral basto, moral comida de mono, moral bobo, moral, chisruya, pitiúk, tulpay, ciruela, mashonaste, naranjillo, tulpar, Guariuba, mashonaste, sunquirim suwé, tulpay bianco, mashonaste amarillo, guariuba amarela, guariuba, guariuba de caranazal, oiticica, oiticica, guar, guariuba, janita, siticica, houyoufi, huehue, urupi, mascajo rojo, Murure, Murure

Distribution

From southern Mexico to Suriname and eastern Brazil, with a ± clearly discontinuous range of distribution, but often locally common; in wet, non-inundated forest; to 1500 m.

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