Priamosia domingensis Urb.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Salicaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Priamosia domingensis Urb.

  • Type

    Type. Eggers 2285, Hispaniola, República Dominicana, Valle de Constanza, fl [male] (holotype, B, lost, phot F 5788).

  • Synonyms

    Xylosma microphylla Urb. & Ekman

  • Description

    Description - Shrub or treelet up to 6 m high, with spreading branches. Branchlets with axillary simple slender spines (3.0-)5.0-10.0 mm long, or sometimes unarmed, tips patently puberulent, older parts grayish-brownish-corticate and set with small roundish lenticels. Leaves ovate or obovate, sometimes suborbicular, apex obtuse to rounded, rarely subacuminate-attenuate, base broadly cuneate, very base obtuse or truncate, young blades thin, becoming blackish when dry, mature ones (sub)coriaceous, glaucous-green and shining above, dull beneath, glabrous, with 1-4 crenulations on either side or rarely entire, (4.0-)10.0-15.0 mm long, (3.0-)6.0-13.0 mm broad, midrib somewhat impressed above, lateral nerves rather obscure; petiole 0.5-1.5 mm long. Flowers [male] solitary from an axillary rosette of squamiform bracteoles; pedicels ca 1.3 mm long. Sepals 4, ovate-triangular, with a tooth above the base on both sides, acutish, membranous, fimbriate-ciliate, otherwise glabrous, pale, 1.0 mm long. Stamens 4; filaments 1.5 mm long; anthers 0.6 mm diam. Flowers [female] (Holdridge 1950): pedicels slender, glabrous, 4.0-5.0 mm long in young fruit. Berry globose, red, 2-seeded, ca 4.0 mm diam, crowned by a short bifurcate style.

  • Distribution

    Endemic in Hispaniola; in montane forest, in thickets and pastures, open places, locally common, though often sterile, on calcareous soil, 850-1600 m alt.

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