Pseudolmedia manabiensis C.C.Berg

  • Authority

    Berg, Cornelius C. 2001. Moreae, Artocarpeae, and (Moraceae): With introductions to the family and and with additions and corrections to Flora Neotropica Monograph 7. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 83: 1-346. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Moraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pseudolmedia manabiensis C.C.Berg

  • Type

    Type. Ecuador. Manabi: Cerro Montecristi, 15 Oct 1995 ([male]), Cornejo et al. 4660 (holotype, GUAY; isotype, BG).

  • Description

    Species Description - Tree, 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 1-3 mm thick, yellowish-tomentose to hirtellous, the hairs distinctly different in length and partly crinkled. Lamina coriaceous, oblong to subobovate, 2.5-11 × 1-4.5 cm, slightly inequilateral; apex acuminate; base subacute to obtuse; margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface puberulous to tomentose, mainly on the veins; lower surface tomentose to hirtellous; lateral veins 12-18 pairs; tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform; petiole 0.2-0.4 cm long, tomentose to hirtellous; stipules 0.8-1.2 cm long, yellowish-(sub)sericeous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences solitary or in pairs in the leaf axils, subsessile, (immature) 0.5-0.7 cm diam.; involucre with ca. 7 rows of semiorbicular to ovate, yellowish-subsericeous to appressed-puberulous bracts; stamens (immature) with filaments ca. 0.2-0.3 mm long, anthers ca. 0.7-0.9 mm long, apiculate, glabrous; interstaminal scales (= tepals) 1-1.3 mm long, filiform to narrowly subspathulate, the upper part with dense and relatively long hairs.

  • Discussion

    Because of the similarities in the indumentum this species can be regarded to be related to Pseudolmedia glabrata, from which it differs in the shape of the lamina (oblong to subobovate), the largely reticulate tertiary venation, and the narrow (filiform to subspathulate) interstaminal scales. Pseudolmedia manabiensis may prove to be endemic to the cloud (garúa) forest of the low mountains in western Ecuador.

  • Distribution

    In western Ecuador (Manabí); in cloud (mist) forest; at ca. 700 m.

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