Zanthoxylum cardenasii Rusby
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Authority
Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.
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Family
Rutaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - (Only fruiting specimens seen.) Glabrous except a slight puberulence on the pedicels and rachis, the branchlets short and stout. Petiole and leaf-rachis slender, together 7 to 12 cm. long. Leaflets mostly 5 to 7, 6 to 10 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. broad, oblong, with a very abrupt, short, obtuse point at the summit and contracted at the base into a blackish petiolule 5 to 7 cm. long, entire, thick, the secondaries 12 to 15 on a side, slender, Avidely spreading, lightly interarching near the margin, the midrib stout, terete, strongly prominent beneath, lightly channeled above. Panicles numerous, crowded, short, sessile, densely fruited, the blackish branchlets and pedicels short and thick. Mature carpels mostly 3, sessile by a narrowed blackish base, brown, shallowly pitted, about 5 mm. long and nearly as broad, inequilaterally obovoid with rounded summit tipped by the short and stout style-base. Seed solitary, ellipsoidal, black, smooth and strongly shining, the breadth two thirds of the length, the testa thick.
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Distribution
Ixiamas, 800 feet, M. Cardenas, December 17,1921 (no. 1933). A large shrub, with red fruit, on sunny pampas.
Bolivia South America|