Banara brittonii Roíg

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Salicaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Banara brittonii Roíg

  • Type

    Type. Cremata anno 1902, Cuba, Isle of Pines, Cayo Mono, inside the swamp near San Pedro, fr (holotype, NY).

  • Description

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    Description - Slender shrub, up to 4.0 m tall. Branchlets very shortly gray-pubescent at tips, otherwise glabrous, lenticels obscure. Leaves variable in shape and size, oblong to lanceolate-oblong, more rarely subovate-oblong or -lanceolate, apex broadly obtusely acuminate or obtuse, rarely almost rounded, base more or less unequal, broadly cuneate to rounded, chartaceous, glabrous and smooth above, distinctly whitish- or grayish-pubescent and narrowly prominent-reticulate beneath, subdenticulate by minute marginal glands or subentire at the slightly revolute edge, 4.0-7.0 cm long, 1.5-3.0 cm broad, 3-nerved front base and bearing there a pair of dark cupular glands, upper lateral nerves 4-5(-6) pairs curved-ascending from the midrib, all nerves a little immersed above, prominent beneath; petiole slender, yellowish-pubescent, 5.0-8.0 mm long; stipules subulate, pubescent, 2.0 mm long, caducous. Panicles terminal, often more or less pendulous, 5.0-7.0 cm long, many-flowered, all over puberulous; pedicels slender, rather glabrescent, 3.0-5.0 mm long. Sepals 3, oblong-elliptic to ovate-oblong or suborbicular, obtuse, ciliate, minutely pubescent outside, glabrous inside, 2.0-2.5 mm long and wide. Petals 3, yellow, otherwise as the sepals. Receptacle hairy between the bases of filaments. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style 1.5 mm long. Fruit ovoid, becoming blackish at full maturity, ca 4.0 mm diam; seeds several, ovoid-oblongoid, striate, ca 2.0 mm long.

  • Distribution

    Cuba, limited to the Province Pinar del Rio and the Isla de Pinos; on coastal limestone rocks.

    Cuba South America| Piñar del Río Cuba South America| Isla de Piños Cuba South America|