Abatia microphylla Taub.

  • Authority

    Sleumer, Hermann O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 22: 1-499. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Salicaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Abatia microphylla Taub.

  • Type

    Type. Glaziou 12179, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro/Guanabara, Serra dos Orgãos, in alto Pedra do Conego, fl (holotype, B, lost, phot F 13632; isotypes, C, K, P, R).

  • Description

    Description - Shrub. Branchlets slender, tips strigose, older parts glabrescent and corticate. Leaves lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, apex subacuminate-attenuate, acute, or mucronulate, base attenuate, thin-chartaceous, rather firm in texture, with some strigose hairs on the midrib above, glabrous otherwise, with numerous pale points beneath in the dry state, a little shining, serrulate by 3-6 remote glandular teeth on either side of the lamina, (1.0-)1.5-3.0 cm long, 0.4-1.0 cm broad, lateral nerves 5-6 pairs steeply ascending, slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation of veins obscure; petiole 1.0-1.5 mm long. Racemes spiciform, the lowest part only without flowers, erect, dense-flowered, 4.0-8.0(-11.0) cm long; rhachis ferrugineous-villous; pedicels laxly hairy, ca 2.0 mm long at anthesis, glabrescent and a little accrescent in fruit, articulate in the middle. Calyx glabrous, lobes or sepals ovate-acuminate, ca 2.0 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, granular-blackish-punctulate under a lens, finally reflexed. Stamens ca 12. Ovary laxly appressedly hairy; style glabrous, 1.5 mm long. Capsule subglobose, ca 3.0 mm diam, blackish-purplish-pubescent; seeds several, ellipsoid, black, shining, densely reticulate, sparsely pubescent, hardly 1.0 mm long.

  • Distribution

    Only known from the type locality; in shrubberies, 13601400 m. Possibly a microphyllous and early glabrescent local form of A. americana, a species not rare in the Serra dos Orgãos.

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