Pouteria scrobiculata Monach. ex T.D.Penn.
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Authority
Pennington, Terence D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52: 1-750. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Sapotaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Venezuela. Bolívar: Betw. Santa Teresita de Kavanayen & Río Pacairão, Nov 1944 (fl), Steyermark 60355 (holotype, NY; isotype, F).
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Synonyms
Pouteria scrobiculata Monach., Oxythece scrobiculata Monach.
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots golden-sericeous at first, soon glabrous, greyish-white, slightly scaling, usually lenticellate. Leaves spaced, spirally arranged to rarely subopposite, 4.4-10 × 2.1-3.7 cm, elliptic to broadly oblanceolate, apex narrowly attenuate to rounded, base narrowly attenuate or cuneate, margins usually revolute, thinly coriaceous, upper surface minutely pustular or pitted, glabrous, glaucous below, with residual appressed sericeous indumentum; venation brochidodromous, midrib slightly raised on the upper surface (at least in the upper half of the leaf), secondary veins 6-13 pairs, parallel, straight, slightly impressed on the upper surface; intersecondaries long (sometimes obscure); tertiaries obscure. Petiole 0.5-1.3 cm long, not channelled, sericeous at first. Fascicles 2-8-flowered, axillary and below the leaves. Pedicel 0.4-0.7(-l) cm long, golden sericeous. Flowers unisexual (plant dioecious). Sepals 5-6, 1.75-2 mm long, ovate, apex acute to rounded, golden sericeous on both surfaces. Corolla cyathiform, 1.75-2.5 mm long, tube 0.75-1 mm long, lobes five(-six), 1-1.5 mm long (equalling or exceeding the tube), ovate, apex obtuse to rounded, glabrous or with sparse appressed indumentum near base of tube. Stamens five(six), fixed at or near the top of the corolla tube; filaments 0.25-0.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers ca. 0.75 mm long, ovate, glabrous; stamens absent in female. Staminodes 0-2, usually vestigial. Disk absent. Ovary broadly conical, bilocular, pubescent; style ca. 0.5 mm long after anthesis (male); absent or very short in female; style-head simple or slightly expanded. Fruit unknown. Field characters. Tree to 20 m high, the leaf undersurface silvery or bluish; flowers white. Flowering Dec-Jan, May-Jul.
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Common Names
Para-to-re-yek, tee-u-ben-yek
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Objects
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Distribution
S Venezuela highlands (Bolívar and Territorio Federal Amazonas), and Serra Aracá, N Amazonas, Brazil, in wet or riverside forest on steep slopes, 700-1600 m altitude.
Venezuela South America| Bolívar Venezuela South America| Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America|