Vantanea peruviana J.F.Macbr.
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Authority
Cuatrecasas, José. 1961. A taxonomic revision of the Humiriaceae. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 35: 25-214. pl. 1-24.
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Family
Humiriaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type: Klug 1130, Peru, Loreto. This species is only known from the type locality in Amazonian Peru.
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Description
Description - Medium-size tree with reddish-brown, lenticellate, glabrous branchlets. Leaves rigid-coriaceous, glabrous. Petioles 3-4 mm. long, thickened at base. Blades entire, obovate or obovate-elliptie, cuneate at base and dccurrent on the petiole, rounded, truncate or even retuse at the apex, 3-8 cm. long, 1.2-4.5 cm. broad; greenish and lustrous above with marked midrib and almost obsolete veins; brown when dry beneath, with prominent midrib; secondary nerves 10-12 on both sides, very slender, almost obsolete, arched and united near the margin, the lesser veins inconspicuous; bearing a few minute glands spread at the middle. Inflorescences in axils of uppermost leaves, forming cymose corymbiform pseudoterminal panicle; peduncle and branchlets robust, angled, hirtello-puberulous. Bracts deciduous. Pedicels thick, glabrous or subglabrous, 1-1.5 mm. long. Calyx cupular, thick, about 1.2 mm. high, 5-lobate, lobes subrounded, glabrous outside, the margin minutely ciliolate. Petals white, thickish, linear, acutish, glabrous, about 11 mm. long, 1.5-1.8 mm. broad. Stamens about 70, glabrous, the filaments slender, flexuous, 7-10 mm. long, united in a tube 1-1.5 mm. high. Anthers ovate, 0.6 mm. long, with 4 ellipsoid lobes, the connective fleshy, oblong, obtuse. Disk tubular, glabrous, with toothed margin, girdling the ovary, 1.5 mm. high. Ovary ellipsoid, glabrous, 1.5 mm. long, with 5 biovulate cells. Styles erect, glabrous, about 7 mm. long. Fruit unknown.