Hirtella rasa Standl.
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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
Types. Klug 4249, Peru, San Martín, fl (holotype, F; isotypes, A, BM, K, NY, S, US); Krukoff 5525, Brazil, Acre, fl (paratypes, A, BM, F, K, LE, M, MICH, NY, RB, S, SP, US, WIS).
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Description
Description - Tree to 25.0 m tall, the young branches puberulous, soon becoming glabrous and lenticellate. Leaves elliptic, coriaceous, 9.0-15.0 cm long, 3.5-6.5 cm broad, acuminate at apex, with acumen 2.0-7.0 mm long, subcuneate at base, papillose and bearing only stiff appressed hairs beneath, with many palisade glands towards base; primary veins 8-10 pairs, prominulous on both surfaces; midrib plane to prominulous above, prominent beneath, puberulous to glabrescent on both surfaces; petioles 4.0-5.0 mm long, terete, eglandular, glabrescent. Stipules ca 3.0 mm long, linear, puberulous, caducous, eglandular. Inflorescences terminal lax panicles 7.0-19.0 cm long, the rachis and branches sparsely puberulous. Bracts and bracteoles 2.0-4.5 mm long, ovate, puberulous, eglandular, caducous. Flowers ca 6.0 mm long. Receptacle campanulate, with short gray-tomentum on exterior, glabrous within except at throat; pedicels o.5-1.0 mm long. Calyx lobes rounded to acute, shortly tomentellous on exterior, gray-puberulous within. Petals 5, white, glabrous. Stamens 6, unilateral, with short filamentous staminodes opposite them; filaments glabrous, far exceeding calyx lobes. Style hirsute up to half its length. Ovary inserted at mouth of receptacle, villous-tomentose. Fruit (young fruit only seen) ellipsoid; epicarp tomentellous; pericarp thin, hard, bony, sparsely hirsutulous within.
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Distribution
Known only from the type gatherings made in primary forest in Amazonian Peru and western Amazonian Brazil.
Brazil South America| Peru South America|