Guatteria lucida Rusby

  • 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.

  • Family

    Annonaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Guatteria lucida Rusby

  • Description

    Species Description - (Fruiting specimen.) Glabrous. Branches elongate, stout, strongly ascending. Petioles 3 or 4 mm. long and nearly as broad, black. Blades to 2 dm. long and 7 cm. broad, oblanceolate with obtusish base and an extremely abrupt short obtuse point at the summit, entire, thin, shining on both sides, the very slender venation but little prominent, strongly and finely anastomosing, the secondaries about 13 or 14 on each side, strongly ascending and strongly connecting a short distance from the margin. Flowers 2 or more developing from a black lateral node. Fruiting pedicel 2 to 4 cm. long, upwardly thickened, the torus depressed-globose, nearly 1 cm. broad, the stipes about 2 cm. long, upwardly thickened, black, the carpels about 1.5 cm. long and half as wide, inaequilaterally ellipsoid, or slightly narrower below.