Terminalia opacifolia Maguire & Exell
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Authority
Maguire, Bassett & Wurdack, John J. 1958. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part III. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 10: 1-156.
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Family
Combretaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Latin Diagnosis - T. virgatae similis sed ramulis foliisque fere glabris, spicis globoso-capitatis, 1.0-1.5 cm in diam., pedunculis 1.0-2.5 mm longis, glabris. Flores 4-meri. Receptaculum inferius (ovarium) glabrum. Fructus ad hoc ignotus. Receptaculum superius campanulatum extus glabrum, intus dense hirsuto-pilosum.
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Discussion
Type: spindly tree 5-15 m high, 5-8 cm diam., frequent, dense scrubbush (1-2 m high) savanna and ridges, at 1650 m altitude, North Valley, Cerro Guaiquinima, Edo. Bolivar, Venezuela, Maguire 32951 (holotype NY, isotype BM).
Known only by the type collection from the type locality, where, with those of T. virgaia, the tall flexuous virgate stems emerge conspicuously above the waist- or head-high level of the open scrub vegetation.