Licania urceolaris Hook.f.
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Authority
Prance, Ghillean T. 1972. Chrysobalanaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 9: 1-410. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Chrysobalanaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Spruce 2422, Brazil, Amazonas, fl (holotype, K; isotypes, BM, BR, C, CGE, GH, GOET, LD, LE, NY, OXF, P).
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Description
Description - Tree to 25.0 m tall, the young branches puberulous, becoming glabrous and lenticellate with age. Leaves oblong-ovate, chartaceous to coriaceous, 5.5-12.5 cm long, 2.5-6.2 cm broad, the apex with a well developed acumen 4.0-12.0 mm long, rounded to subcuneate at base, the margins plane, glabrous above, with short waxy gray-pulverulent-furfuraceous pubescence beneath; venation glabrous beneath; midrib glabrous above, plane or slightly impressed; primary veins 6-10 pairs, prominulous beneath, plane above; petioles 3.0-6.0 mm long, terete or shallowly canaliculate, puberulous, becoming glabrous with age, with two medial sessile glands. Stipules ca 2.0 mm long, lanceolate, coriaceous, adnate to base of petiole, caducous or subpersistent. Inflorescences little-branched terminal and axillary racemose panicles, the rachis and branches tomentellous. Flowers 3.0-4.0 mm long, solitary or in small groups along primary branches of inflorescence. Bracts and bracteoles 0.5-1.5 mm long, deltoid, persistent, tomentellous on exterior. Receptacle urceolate, sessile, tomentose on exterior, tomentellous within. Calyx lobes acute, tomentellous on both surfaces. Petals absent. Stamens 5, inserted in an arc of ca 270°; filaments shorter than calyx lobes, glabrous, free to base. Ovary inserted at base of receptacle, tomentose. Style equalling filaments, sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Fruit (immature) pyriform; epicarp glabrous, drying yellow and wrinkled; mesocarp thin; endocarp thick, hard, pubescent within.
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Discussion
Flowering August to October.
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Distribution
Non-flooded forest in western Amazonia.
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