Casearia guianensis (Aubl.) Urb.
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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. Aublet sn, French Guiana, prope maris littora Caiennae et Guianae, defl (holotype, BM; probable isotypes, C, P).
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Synonyms
Iroucana guianensis Aubl., Athenaea guianensis (Aubl.) J.F.Gmel., Casearia ramiflora Vahl, Samyda iroucana Rich., Casearia fallax Miq., Casearia nitida (L.) Jacq., Samyda octandra Sessé & Moc., Guidonia ramiflora (Vahl) M.Gómez, Casearia spinescens (Sw.) Griseb., Casearia arguta Kunth
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Description
Species Description - Shrub or small tree, 1.5-6.0(-20.0) m tall, unarmed; trunk up to 30.0 cm diam; bark smooth, greenish-yellowish, inner part exuding a sticky yellow slime. Branches few, elongate. Branchlets slender, tips subappressedly rusty-pubescent, older parts early glabrescent and covered with dark brown to reddish cork; lenticels elongate, rather sparse. Leaves apparently periodically deciduous, oblong or elliptic, generally more or less obovately so, apex shortly subacutely acuminate, base cuneate to the petiole, thin- to firm-chartaceous, with numerous pellucid dots and lines, laxly puberulous or appressedly gray-to subferrugineous-pubescent on both faces when young, early glabrescent, remaining hairy along midrib and lateral nerves especially beneath, a little glossy above with age, dull and remaining greenish-olivaceous when dry, shallowly crenate (1.0 mm), 7.0-14.0(-19.0) cm long, 3.0-6.0(-7.5) cm broad, lateral nerves 6-8 pairs curved-ascending, slightly raised beneath only, veins more or less transverse, reticulation of veins and veinlets usually inconspicuous; petiole appressedly pubescent initially, glabrescent, 5.0-8.0(-10.0) mm long; stipules subulate, rusty-puberulous, 2.0-5.0 mm long, caducous. Inflorescence fasciculate, 6-10(-15)-flowered in the axils of generally defoliate branchlets; bracts scarious, small, laxly hairy, ca 1.5 mm diam; pedicels slender, articulate above base to almost middle, puberulous mainly below articulation, 4.0-6.0 mm long at anthesis, accrescent to 8.0 mm towards fructification. Sepals 5, oblong, obtuse, white to greenish, rather laxly appressedly hairy outside, 4.0-5.0 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm broad. Stamens 8, subequilong; filaments glabrous, ca 2.5 mm long; anthers oblong, inconspicuously or not glandular-apiculate, ca 0.7 mm long. Disk-lobes linear-spathulate, villous, ca 1.3 mm long. Ovary pyriform or ovoid, densely set with appressed soft hairs, gradually attenuate to the glabrous style; stigma capitate. Fruit subglobose, with 6 longitudinal blunt ridges, reticulate-tubercled (tubercles in dry fruits often more or less distinctly arranged to horizontal lines), laxly hairy or subglabrous, red, 6.0-8.0(-13.0) mm diam, splitting to 3 valves, these reddish inside and provided with several subparallel horizontal depressed lines; seeds 6-8(-13), subovoid, ca 3.0 mm long; testa minutely foveolate-striate; aril thin, orange.
Distribution and Ecology - Antiilia, Panama, extending to Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, and Brazil (southwards to Bahia); in evergreen and seasonal forest, in thickets, also in secondary growth, often along river, on limestone hills, from lowland to ca 1000 m alt.
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Distribution
Panama Central America| Veraguas Panama Central America| Herrera Panama Central America| Canal Zone Panamá Central America| Panamá Panama Central America| San Blás Panama Central America| Darién Panamá Central America| Cuba South America| Piñar del Río Cuba South America| La Habana Cuba South America| Camagüey Cuba South America| Jamaica South America| Haiti South America| Dominican Republic South America| Puerto Rico South America| Virgin Islands South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America| St.Martin-St.Barthélémy South America| Guadeloupe South America| Martinique South America| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines South America| Grenada South America| Colombia South America| Magdalena Colombia South America| San Andrés y Providencia Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| Falcón Venezuela South America| Lara Venezuela South America| Trujillo Venezuela South America| Distrito Federal Venezuela South America| Miranda Venezuela South America| Guárico Venezuela South America| Sucre Venezuela South America| Monagas Venezuela South America| Delta Amacuro Venezuela South America| Mérida Venezuela South America| Apure Venezuela South America| Bolívar Venezuela South America| Nueva Esparta Venezuela South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America| Guyana South America| Suriname South America| French Guiana South America| Brazil South America| Roraima Brazil South America| Pará Brazil South America| Maranhão Brazil South America| Ceará Brazil South America| Pernambuco Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Alagoas Brazil South America|