Ocotea olivacea A.C.Sm.
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Authority
Maguire, Bassett. 1965. The Botany of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 1-285.
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Family
Lauraceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Tree 35-40 feet, petals white, anthers yellow, woods, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru, about 100 m, 26 Sep 1929, E. P. Killip d A. C. Smith 29843 (holotype, fl. NY)
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Description
Distribution and Ecology - Distribution. Tree 35-40 feet, with conspicuously angled, reddish brown branchlets, occurring at 100-200 m, in the Vaupes area, Colombia, in addition to the type locality. COLOMBIA. Comisaria del Vaupes: Maguire d Fernandez 44072 (fr. NY).
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Discussion
Aside from its angled branchlets, the species is outstanding in the dried state for the large, ovate-elliptic leaves 35 X 18 cm, cuneate at the base and shortly acuminate at the apex, with sturdy petioles up to 2 cm long, deeply canaliculate. The ellipsoid fruits, with red, hemispheric cupules (in the dried state, rusty) to 7 m m long, 10 m m in diam, narrowing into a stout pedicel, are borne in comparatively narrow infructescences, more or less racemose-paniculate.
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Distribution
Distribution. Tree 35-40 feet, with conspicuously angled, reddish brown branchlets, occurring at 100-200 m, in the Vaupes area, Colombia, in addition to the type locality.
Colombia South America|