Abatia mexicana Standl.
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Authority
Sleumer, Hermann O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 22: 1-499. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Salicaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Liebmann 15030, Mexico, Veracruz, Mirador to Jalapa, fl (holotype, F, fragm G, phot F 50630; isotype, C).
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Synonyms
Abatia Ruiz & Pav., Abatia mexicana Baill.
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Description
Description - Shrub to 3.5 m high. Branchlets slender, tips grayish-whitish-stellate-tomentose, older parts glabrescent. Leaves lanceolate-ovate, apex long-acuminate and acute, base rounded, or sometimes subcordate, firmly membranaceous, sparsely stellate-hairy at midrib and lateral nerves on both faces, manifestly, or mostly more obscurely crenate-serrulate, 4.0-8.0(-12.0) cm long, 1.5-3.5(-5.0) cm broad, lateral nerves 5-6(-7) pairs, flat above, slightly raised beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets rather obscure beneath; petiole slender, stellate-tomentose, 6.0-9.0(-15.0, -20.0) mm long. Racemes spiciform, slender, rather dense-flowered, 5.0-9.0(-16.0) cm long incl peduncle (1.0-4.0 cm), all over yellowish-grayish-stellate-tomentose; pedicels 2.5-3.0 mm long; bracts lanceolate to subuliform, 2.0 mm long. Calyx lobes or sepals 4, triangular-ovate, acute, yellow, patent or a little reflexed in anthesis, yellowish-grayish outside, almost glabrous inside, reddish-brown in the dry state, 2.5 mm long. Stamens 8. Ovary densely covered with white hairs; style 1.0-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Capsule ovoid, subacute, white-tomentellous, 5.0-6.0 mm long; seeds 15-20, ellipsoid, striate, hardly 1.0 mm long.
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Distribution
S Mexico; in mixed Pine-Podocarpus-, or in Alnus jorullensis forest, 1500-1850 m alt.
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