Couepia excelsa Ducke

  • Authority

    Prance, Ghillean T. 1972. Chrysobalanaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 9: 1-410. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Chrysobalanaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Couepia excelsa Ducke

  • Type

    Type. Ducke RB 19758, Brazil, Pará, fl (holotype, RB; isotypes, IAN, K, P, U).

  • Description

    Description - Tree to 25.0 m tall. Leaves elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 13.0-25.0 cm long, 4.0-7.0 cm broad, rounded to subcordate at base, acuminate at apex, with acumen 4.0-9.0 mm long, sparsely appressed-pubescent above, becoming glabrous with age, densely gray-arachnoid beneath; midrib sparsely pubescent above; primary veins 23-28 pairs, prominent on lower surface; petioles 8.0-10.5 mm long, terete, pubescent. Stipules to 3.0 mm long, caducous. Inflorescences short-branched panicles or racemes, axillary or terminal, 3.0-6.0 cm long, the rachis and branches brown tomentellous. Bracts and bracteoles, ovate, to 8.0 mm long, caducous. Receptacle subcampanulate, 9.0 mm long, densely brown-pubescent on exterior, the interior lined to base by dense reflexed hairs; pedicels 2.0-3.0 mm long. Calyx lobes rounded, ovate, 4.5-6.0 mm long. Petals 5, white, ciliate on margins. Stamens 38-40, inserted in an arc 270°, sometimes with a short sterile toothed portion of circle opposite them. Ovary villous. Style pubescent almost to apex. Fruit oval, 6.0-7.0 cm long, 4.0 cm broad; epicarp smooth, glabrous; endocarp granular, fragile, glabrous within.

  • Discussion

    Flowering July to October.

  • Distribution

    Non-flooded forest in eastern Amazonian Brazil.

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