Pseudolmedia alnifolia Rusby
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Authority
Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.
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Family
Moraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - More or less pilose throughout, the trichomes various. Branchlets stout, short, terete, flexuous, annulate at the nodes, irregularly clothed with short coarse gray hairs, many of them with glandular heads. Stipules deciduous, about 1 cm. long, 3 or 4 mm. wide, lanceolate, acuminate, inaequilateral, thick, with prominent midrib and marginal nerve, puberulent and ciliate. Petioles none, or very short and stout. Blades to 6 by 12 cm., often relatively broader, varying from ovate to obovate, with rounded or subcordate base and broad summit abruptly contracted into a short, mostly obtuse point, entire, thick and rigid, strongly veined, the upper surface pale-green, somewhat shining, the midrib lightly channeled, the lower surface more or less ferruginous, densely minutely papillose, the midrib more or less hirsute, reddish, like the secondaries, which are 16 to 18 on a side, widely spreading, at first straight, then sharply upcurved and connecting near the margin, connected by numerous slender, sharply prominent tertiaries. Fruit broadly ovoid, 1 to 1.5 cm. broad, tomentose or hirsute, deep-purple, the pulp abundant, agreeable. "A small tree, spreading 20 to 30 feet, common in deep forest. Indians eat this and other kinds, the fruit yellow-red, sweet and slightly acid, the seed yellow."
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Distribution
In the Bala Mountains, near Rurrenabaque, 1,000 feet, O. E. White, October 17, 1921 (no. 1492).
Bolivia South America|