Talisia pilosula Sagot
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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. French Guiana. Acarouany, 1858 (fl), Sagot s.n. (holotype, B-de-stroyed, photo (F neg. 5680) at US; isotypes, K, P-3; frag, at M).
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Description
Species Description - Tree to 23 m tall. Stems nearly terete, pubescent, becoming glabrous, and slightly glossy. Leaves paripinnate; distal process acicular, tardily deciduous, 0.5-2 cm long; leaflets 16-18, subopposite or alternate, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, 5.5-12 × 1.4-3.2 cm, the venation brochidodromus, the adaxial surface with impressed venation, glabrous, the abaxial surface pilose to minutely hirsute, with prominent venation, tertiary veins reticulate, the apex caudate, the base inequilateral, one side obtuse the other rounded, the margins entire, revolute; petiolules cylindrical, ca. 2 mm long, abaxially pilose or glabrescent; rachis 16-28 cm long, nearly terete on proximal portion, slightly flattened on distal portion, minutely hirsute or pilose; petioles 5.5-11.5 cm long, terete, pilose or minutely hirsute, slightly enlarged at base. Thyrses panicle-shaped, 11-12 cm long, supra-axillary on distal portion of branch; cataphylls acicular or pinnate, 4-10 mm long, ferruginous hirsute in a supra-axillary cluster; axes slightly angled, hirsute with intermixed multicellular longer trichomes; bracts and bracteoles subulate, 2-4 mm long, hirsute, with numerous multicellular, elongated trichomes; dichasia simple, or the distal flowers seemingly solitary (lateral flowers aborted), sessile; pedicels 0.5-1 mm long, articulate at the apex. Calyx 1.5-3 mm long, minutely hirsute, intermingled with multicellular, glandular trichomes, the sepals 1-2 mm long, ovate or lanceolate, concave; petals 4-4.5 mm long, elliptic, abaxially glabrous, adaxially with elongated glandular papillae, obtuse at apex, cuneate to attenuate at base; appendage as long as the petal, elliptic, abaxially glabrous, adaxially hirsute on upper half, fused to the petals base margins to form a pocket; disc 5-lobed, hirsute, ca. 0.5 mm tall; stamens 5, the filaments of equal length or slightly unequal, glabrous, 3-3.3 mm long, filiform, the anthers oblong, 1-1.3 mm long, apiculate at apex; ovary hirsute, conical, the stigma elongate-trigonous, ferruginous-papillate. Fruit ellipsoid, apiculate, ca. 1.8 cm long, puberulent, sub-tuberculate, the pericarp coriaceous, ca. 1 mm thick, the endocarp glabrous. Seed solitary, the testa fleshy. Embryo with cotyledons lying transversely over each other, the lower one slightly larger than the upper one.
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Discussion
The specific epithet refers to the pilose indumentum of this species.
Phenology. Flowering period unknown, fruits collected in March. -
Distribution
Known only in French Guiana from riverine forest.
French Guiana South America| Sinnamary French Guiana South America|