Maytenus 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
Celastraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - (Mature fruiting specimens.) Glabrous, the branchlets slender, gray or purplish-gray. Leaves 4 to 9 cm. long, 1 to 2.5 cm. wide, lance-oblong, abruptly contracted into a short, obtuse acumination at the summit, very abruptly contracted into a petiolelike base 2 or 3 mm. long, with incurved or involute margins; upper portion of the margin obsoletely serrate; coriaceous, deepgreen, slightly shining above, the venation scarcely prominent on either side, the strongly ascending secondaries 12 to 15 pairs, often with a few smaller ones alternating at the basal portion. Fruits solitary or 2 or 3 together in the axils, the pedicels 2 or 3 mm. long, stout, purplish, the persistent thickish calyx 2 mm. broad, shallowly lobed, the fruit 8 to 10 mm. long, and more than half as broad, ellipsoid, deep-purple, the aril light-reddish.
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Distribution
San Rafael, near Reyes, 1,000 feet, M. Cardenas, October 29, 1921 (no. 1379). Species near M. erythrocarpa.
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