Abatia parviflora Ruiz & Pav.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Salicaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Abatia parviflora Ruiz & Pav.

  • Type

    Type. Ruiz & Pavon anno 1780, Peru, Huánuco, Muña, fl (holotype, MA; isotypes, BM, Fl-Webb, G, G-DC, MO, P).

  • Synonyms

    Abatia verbascifolia Kunth, Abatia borealis L.O.Williams

  • Description

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    Description - Shrub or weak tree up to 1.0 m tall; stem slender, straight; bark rather smooth, brown to gray. Branchlets virgate, grayish- or whitish-stellate-tomen-tulose, or -lanuginose, striate-angled in the youngest parts. Leaves oblong, or lanceolate-oblong, or oblong-elliptic, apex shortly (sometimes narrowly) acuminate, base rather broadly attenuate, the very base generally obtuse, firmly chartaceous, becoming subcoriaceous with age, densely grayish-stellate-tomentulose initially, less densely so to glabrescent with age above, densely softly stellate-hairy to -tomentose, or lanuginose-pulverulent all over the undersurface, especially on midrib and lateral nerves, sometimes glabrescent to various degrees, serrulate-denticulate, 8.0-16.0 cm long, 3.5-6.0(-7.0) cm broad, lateral nerves (8-)10-12 pairs prominent beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets dense and rather distinctly raised beneath; petiole thick, whitish-grayish-tomentulose, sometimes glabrescent, (1.0-)1.3-2.0 (rarely -2.5) cm long, with a small gland at the very base. Racemes spiciform, erect, densely or more loosely flowered, all over grayish-yellowish-stellate-tomentose, 15.0-20.0(-25.0) cm long incl peduncle (1.5-2.5 cm). Flowers fragrant, pale yellow, or greenish; pedicels stoutish to more slender, densely to loosely stellate-hairy, 2.0-5.0(-7.0) mm long at, slightly accrescent after anthesis. Calyx lobes or sepals ovate-oblong, acuminate, more or less reflexed at anthesis, whitish-yellowish-tomentulose outside, subglabrous inside, 4.0-5.0(-6.0) mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm broad. Stamens 20-30. Ovary gray-tomentose; style glabrous, 3.0 mm long. Capsule depressed-globose, grayish-yellowish-tomentulose, ca 5.0 mm diam; seeds numerous, ovoid-oblongoid, striate, glabrous, dark red to blackish, 1.2 mm long.

  • Discussion

    Note. Specimens with more loosely arranged flowers, described as a proper species from Costa Rica, are known also from Colombia. Wood white, hard, heavy.

  • Distribution

    Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru; in montane cloud forest or subpáramo bush, also in secondary vegetation, 1600-3400 m alt.

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