Trichilia cardenasii 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
Meliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Glabrous, but the slender branchlets roughened with minute whitish papillae. Branchlets slender, gray-brown, finely wrinkled. Petioles short, stout, bearing a gland on the upper surface about midway. Leaflets mostly 5, alternate, much larger on the fruiting branchlets than on those in flower, the latter on slender petiolules 5 to 10 mm. long, channeled above. Blades to 6 by 15 cm., oblanceolate to obovate, with acute base, the summit contracted very abruptly into an acute point about 7 mm. long; thickish and rigid, entire, deep-green, drying brownish, the venation very slender, lightly prominent beneath, the secondaries about 18 or 20 on each side, widely spreading, lightly curved, connecting near the margin. Panicles axillary, peduncled, small, loosely branched and loosely flowered, the flowers very small, sessile or on very short stout pedicels. Calyx crateriform, about 2 mm. broad, the sepals ovate with broad obtuse summit, about as broad as long. Petals puberulent, 3.5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, the summit recurved. Stamen-tube half the length of the petals, its summit bearing 10 setaceous awns about half as long as the tube, the anthers lanceolate, half as long as the tube. Fruit (apparently immature) 8 mm. broad, 6 mm. long, obscurely triquetrous and lightly grooved, with broad summit.
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Distribution
San Buena Ventura, 1,000 feet, il/. Cardenas, November 26, 1921 (no. 1856). "A large forest-tree."
Bolivia South America|