Dorstenia lindeniana Bureau

  • 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

    Dorstenia lindeniana Bureau

  • Type

    Type. Mexico. Tabasco: nr. Teapa, Sep-Oct 1839, Linden 64 (holotype, P; isotypes, G, K, LE).

  • Description

    Species Description - Herb, to 50 cm tall; stem 2-5 mm thick, hirtellous to hirsute with predominantly straight or a mixture of straight and uncinate patent or often ± retrorse hairs; internodes 1-3 cm long. Leaves in spirals; lamina oblong to obovate to elliptic or oblong, 2.5-14 × 1.5-6.5 cm, chartaceous, usually variegated; apex rounded to broadly subacute; base cordate; margin repand to coarsely crenate; upper surface scabrous with minute conical hairs and sparse bristle-like hairs; lower surface ± scabrous, puberulous to hirtellous with straight and uncinate hairs, on the veins denser and almost hirsute; lateral veins 811 pairs, faintly loop-connected or terminating at the margin; tertiary venation subscalariform to reticulate; petiole 1.5-5 cm long, with indumentum like on the stem; stipules narrowly triangular, sometimes with a swollen base, to 0.6 cm long, to 0.2 cm broad, usually with a few bristle-like hairs, sometimes with ± patent Inflorescences on minute short-shoots with reduced stipules, green or the receptacle with a purple margin and flowering face; peduncle 2-4 cm long, puberulous to hirtellous or sometimes hirsute with straight to uncinate, often ± retrorse hairs; receptacle centrally attached, broadly turbinate to almost discoid, (suborbicular in outline, 0.5-1.2 cm diam., the outside sparsely puberulous (to hirsute) predominantly with uncinate, ± retrorse hairs, the margin (sub)entire to dent(icul)ate, the fringe ca. 1 mm broad, sparsely, minutely puberulous; bracts in ca. 3 rows, on and below the margin and on the fhnge, appressed or the outer ones often ± radiating and/or on the teeth of the margin, ovate to oblong, 0.3-0.8 mm long, puberulous or the larger ones setulose; staminate flowers among the pistillate ones; tepals 2; stamens 2; filaments shorter than the perianth; stigmas almost equal in length, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Endocarp body ca. 3 × 2 mm, slightly tuberculate.

  • Discussion

    Dorstenia lindeniana is distinct from the other members of the Central American-Andean group of species by the scabrous upper surface of the lamina.

  • Distribution

    (see Fig. 79.11). In Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; in shade, often in rocky places, often limestone, along streams; to 1100 m.

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