Calyptranthes pulchella DC.

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett & Wurdack, John J. 1958. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part III. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 10: 1-156.

  • Family

    Myrtaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Calyptranthes pulchella DC.

  • Description

    Species Description - Glabrous except the vegetative buds and youngest branchlets strigose; wings up to 0.5 mm high, prolonged distally into auricle-like tips 1-1.7 mm long; leaves 1.5-3.3 cm wide, 2.5-6 cm long, 1.5-2 times as long as wide, indistinctly punctate above, sparingly dotted beneath; inflorescence 3-5.5 em long, the branches filiform or very slender, 3- to 11-flowered; peduncle 2-2.5 cm long; buds 4—7 mm long, 2-3 mm thick, rounded or obscurely apiculate, the calyptra 2-3 mm long; style 6-8 mm long; stamens about 125, 5-6 mm long; anthers 0.3 mm long; fruit globose, 8 mm in diameter, verruculose.

  • Distribution

    PERU: Loreto, Mishuyacu, King 1373; Timbuchi, Williams 959. BRAZIL: Amazonas, near mouth of Rio Embira, basin of Rio Jurua, Krukoff 5059 (MICH).

    Peru South America|