Vantanea parviflora var. puberulifolia
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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
Cum typo differt: Folia subtus sparse adpresse pilosula. Petiolus costaque subtus breviter kirtula. Hamuli terminales hirto-puberuli. Type in the U.S. National Herbarium, No. 1518624, collected in a nonflooded forest at Fonteboa (Solimões River), State of Amazonas, Brazil, September 6, 1929, by A. Ducke, No. 23428. Isotypes in Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Phanerogamic, Paris, and in Naturhistoriska Museum, Stockholm.
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Description
Description - [No description provided.]
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Discussion
This variety is characterized by its appressed puberulous leaves beneath and short-hirtellous midrib, petioles, and young branchlets. The typical form of the species has completely glabrous leaves and branchlets. Only a few specimens from Brazil are very shortly and scarcely puberulous on the underside of the leaves or have the midrib puberulous (Ducke 23429, 20428, Schultes & López 9267, Krukoff 4956, 7120, Museu Goeldi 9723); they are intermediate forms of this variety. Ducke 23428 has the apical appendix of the anthers more slender and longer (up to twice as long as the thecae), but this condition is not characteristic of the variety because examination of many specimens shows a great variability.