Talisia cupularis 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. Amazonas: Prov. Rio Negro, close to Barra [Manaus], Apr 1851 (yfr), Spruce 1785 (holotype, P; isotypes, K-2, P; frag, at M).
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Description
Species Description - Treelet 3-8 m tall; trunk reaching 8 cm in diam.; bark light brown, fissures, with dark brown lenticels, inner bark cream. Stems obtusely angled to terete, glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves paripinnate; distal process truncate, 2-3 mm long; leaflets 6-16, usually drying reddish brown on abaxial surface, alternate or less often opposite, oblong, elliptic or less often lanceolate, (7.5) 10-26 (37) × 2.8-8.5 (14) cm, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, the venation brochidodromus, prominent on abaxial surface, midvein prominent on adaxial surface, secondary veins plane on adaxial surface, tertiary veins reticulate, the margins entire, slightly revolute, the apex acute or acuminate, the base strongly asymmetrical, one side obtuse the other attenuate; petiolules pulvinate, 0.5-1.5 (2.5) cm long, glabrous, the pulvinus 2-7 mm long, bulbous; rachis (9)32-47 cm long, terete to obtusely angled distally, glabrous; petioles 7-30 cm long, terete, glabrous, striate, enlarged at base. Thyrses panicleshaped, terminal or axillary, to 45 cm long, branches to 22 cm long; cataphylls acicular, ca. 5 mm long; axes terete to angled, sulcate, puberulent to tomentose; bracts and bracteoles subulate, tardily deciduous, minutely tomentose; dichasia compound; peduncles 2-4.5 (6) mm long; pedicels < 0.5 mm long, articulate just below the flower. Calyx poculiform, 4-7 mm long, minutely tomentose, sometimes intermixed with glandular trichomes, the sepals 2-4 mm long, concave, oblong, rounded at apex; petals spatulate, cream, 5-8 mm long, reflexed at anthesis, glabrous except for the ciliate lower margins and papillate adaxial surface, the apex rounded, the base clawed; appendages as long as the petals or slightly shorter, elliptic, erect, densely sericeous on both surfaces; disc cup-shaped, 5-lobed, minutely sericeous, ca. 1 mm tall; stamens 8, the filaments of equal length, ca. 3 mm long, glabrous, the anthers ca. 1.5 mm long, lanceolate, glabrous, apiculate at apex; ovary nearly conical, sericeous-tomentose, the stigma obconical, papillate. Fruits ovoid, glabrous, 2.5-3.2 cm long, yellow, shortly apiculate at apex, the pericarp 2 mm thick, woody. Seeds oblong-elliptic, ca. 1.5 cm long, with fleshy testa. Embryo with cotyledons superimposed, the upper one slightly larger than the lower one.
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Discussion
The specific epithet refers to the vase-shaped calyx, which is formed from connate sepals.
Phenology. Flowering and fruiting throughout the year.
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Common Names
Pitomba, pitomba do mato, Combat
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Distribution
Brazil, French Guiana, and Peru. In moist, lowland, terra firme, and seasonally flooded forests on clayish or sandy soils, tall caatinga forest, and Campina on white sand.
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