Bellucia pentamera Naudin
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Filed As
Melastomataceae
Bellucia pentamera Naudin -
Collector(s)
F. C. Englesing 109
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Location
Nicaragua. Region of Braggman's Bluff.
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Habitat
On gentle slope in old clearing at San Luis. Northeastern Nicaragua.
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Description
Small tree. Diameter at 1 m above base, 48 mm. Height about 3 m. Trunk erect, straight, cylindrical, noded, slightly constricted between nodes, internodes 11 to 18 cm in length. Bark a light gray, minutely and confluently grooved and scaling laterally in narrow hard, brittle flakes. Branches at nodes ascending to horizontal. The branchlets are brownish, noded, and formed usually by the forking of branches. Twigs are a dark brown. Leaves opposite, 4-ranked, smooth, medium dark free above and very much lighter below. Flowers borne singly or in clusters of two to three at nodes on trunk and branches. Fruit in somewhat prolate-apheroid, green, with persistent calyx.
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Identifiers
NY Barcode: 2434481
Occurrence ID: ddaa9992-4355-4dbd-a6b3-8caf7cc8c6fe
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Kingdom
Plantae
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Division
Magnoliophyta
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Order
Myrtales
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Family
Melastomataceae
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All Determinations
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Region
Central America
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Country
Nicaragua
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Locality
Region of Braggman's Bluff.
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Distribution
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Bellucia pentamera Naudin