Lindackeria paludosa (Benth.) Gilg

Authority

Sleumer, Hermann O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 22: 1-499. (Published by NYBG Press)

Family

Achariaceae

Scientific Name

Lindackeria paludosa (Benth.) Gilg

Type

Type. Schomburgk 920, Brazil, Amazonas, Rio Negro,  lagoons at Ped-rero = Moura, fl, fr (holotype, K; isotypes, F, Fl-Webb, G, GH, K, L, P, US, W, phot F 32158).

Synonyms

Mayna paludosa Benth., Mayna laxiflora Benth., Lindackeria maynensis Poepp. & Endl., Oncoba maynensis (Poepp.) Eichler, Oncoba maynensis var. laxiflora (Benth.) Eichler, Carpotroche paludosa (Benth.) Walp., Carpotroche laxiflora (Benth.) Walp., Lindackeria latifolia Benth., Lindackeria maynensis var. laxiflora (Benth.) Mart. ex Pittier

Description

Description - Shrub or trees with spreading crown, 4.0-6.0 (rarely -15.0) m tall; trunk up to 20.0 cm diam; bark gray-brown to reddish, rough; branchlets subterete, striate, tips glandular-puberulous, older parts grayish-corticate. Leaves generally lanceolate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, sometimes ovate, apex subfalcate-caudate-acuminate for 1.0-2.0 cm, base broadly cuneate to obtuse or rounded, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, minutely glandular-punctate and not rarely resinous-glutinous especially when young, with a fine appressed puberulence underneath (sometimes hardly visible when covered by confluent resinous dots), entire or obscurely undulate, dull, 12.0-20.0(-27.0) cm long, 4.0-8.0(-l 1.0) cm broad, lateral nerves 5 or 6 (rarely 7) pairs curved-ascendent and excurrent to looping within the margin, prominent beneath, reticulation of veins rather coarse and slightly raised beneath, that of veinlets obscure; petiole (2.0-)2.5-8.0 cm long. Racemes axillary, obliquely erect, simple or sometimes composite in their distal part, shortly or hardly peduncled, few- to rather many(rarely up to 25)-flowered, the flowers solitary or 2 or 3 fasciculately along the rhachis, grayish-glandular-puberulous all over; rhachis slender, 1.0 3.0 cm long; flower buds obovoid-ellipsoid; pedicels slender, 3.0-5.0 mm long in the [male], 6.0-10.0 mm long in the [male and female] flowers at anthesis, accrescent to 2.0 cm in fruit. Sepals 3, obovate-oblong, 5.0-6.0 mm long, 2.0-2.5 mm broad. Petals 6 (rarely -8), oblong, white or cream, 6.0(-8.0) mm long, 2.0 mm broad. Stamens (20-)30-40; filaments slender, glabrous, 1.5-2.0(-3.0) mm long; anthers subglabrous, ca 2.0 mm long. Ovary ovoid, sessile, covered with numerous thickish glandular-pubescent obtuse and more or less curved aculei (1.0 mm); style glandular-puberulous below, glabrous distally. Capsule subglobular, brownish-yellowish, 1.5-2.5 cm diam incl the obtuse depressed-subconical and furrowed tubercles (1.0-2.0 mm); pericarp fibrose, 1-2 mm thick; seeds 2 or 3, ca 8.0 mm diam, with red aril and lustrous testa.

Discussion

Uses. Wood strong, durable, used for house posts.

Distribution

Widely distributed through the Amazon basin (Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, E Ecuador, E Peru, and Brazil to Bolivia); in primary forest substage or border on hilly terra firme, also in secondary growth, rarely in swamp forest.

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