Talisia coriacea Radlk.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2003. Meliococceae (Sapindaceae):
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Family
Sapindaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Brazil. Bahia: Ilheus, 1840 (fl), Luschnath s.n. (holotype, B-destroyed, photo (F neg. 5673) at MO, NY, US; isotype, BR-2 sheets, photos at US).
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Description
Species Description - Tree 7-30(?) m tall; trunk to 140 cm in diam. Stems terete to obtusely angled, puberulent, becoming glabrous and lenticellate with age. Leaves paripinnate or less often imparipinnate; distal process truncate, minute; leaflets (2) 4-6, opposite or alternate, elliptic to lanceolate, or less often oblanceolate, 2.5-10 × 1.2-4.5 cm, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, the venation brochidodromus, the midvein plane or sunken on adaxial surface, prominent on abaxial surface, secondary veins inconspicuous, or less often prominulous on abaxial surface, tertiary veins reticulate, the margins entire or slightly undulate, slightly revolute, the apex acute to long-acuminate, glandular- mucronulate, or less often obtuse, obtusely apiculate, retuse, or nearly rounded, the base rounded, obtuse or acute, sometimes asymmetrical or slightly so; petiolules canaliculate, 2-5 mm long, puberulent or glabrous; rachis 0.7-2.5 cm long, slightly flattened, striate, lenticellate, puberulent; petioles 2-5 cm long, slightly flattened, lenticellate, canaliculate, wider at base. Thyrses paniculate, terminal, to 15 cm long, the branches to 10 cm long; cataphylls lacking; axes angled, sulcate, minutely tomentose; bracts minute, early deciduous, minutely tomentose; dichasia simple, sessile, sometimes reduced to a single flower; pedicels ca. 1.5 mm long, articulate below the middle or at the base. Calyx 2.3-3.2 mm long, tomentose, the sepals free to the base, concave, ovate, obtuse at apex; petals elliptic, 3.2-5.5 mm long, reflexed, woolly-pubescent on lower abaxial surface, adaxially glabrous, ciliate at margins, the apex obtuse, the base tapering; appendages slightly shorter than the petals, elliptic, erect, densely woolly-pubescent adaxially, minutely woolly-pubescent on abaxial surface; disc cup-shaped, 5-lobed, minutely tomentose, ca. 1 mm tall; stamens 8, the filaments of unequal length, 0.8-2 mm long, glabrous, the anthers ca. 1 mm long, elliptic, glabrous, apiculate at apex; ovary nearly conical, tomentose, the stigma obconical, tomentulose, papillate. Fruits ellipsoid, tomentose, 2.2 cm long (immature), green, shortly apiculate at apex, the pericarp 1 mm thick, woody. Seeds ellipsoid, ca. 1.7 cm long, with fleshy testa. Embryo with cotyledons superimposed, of equal size.
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Discussion
The specific epithet refers to the coriaceous texture of the leaflets.
Phenology. Flower from November to January and in May, collected in fruit in July.
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Distribution
In tropical moist, terra firme forest in lowlands of Brazil and Venezuela.
Venezuela South America| Amazonas Venezuela South America| Barinas Venezuela South America| Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Rio de Janeiro Brazil South America|