Lunania parviflora Spruce ex Benth.

Authority

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

Family

Salicaceae

Scientific Name

Lunania parviflora Spruce ex Benth.

Type

Type. Spruce 3909, Peru, San Martín, Tarapoto, on the Yurimaguas, fl (holotype, K; isotypes, B, fragm ex GOET, BM, BR, C, phot F 21317, F, G, GH, GOET, K, NY, P, W).

Synonyms

Lunania cuspidata Warb., Lunania pittieri Standl.

Description

Species Description - Shrub or usually tree, occasionally up to 20.0 m high; crown more or less spreading; trunk straight, slender; bark thin, pale grayish-brown. Branchlets minutely puberulous, or generally glabrous. Leaves subovate to elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, sometimes rather narrowly so, apex caudate-acuminate for 2.0-3.0 cm, tip bluntish, base oblique, acute to rounded, (thin-)chartaceous, glabrous above, initially somewhat puberulent or hirtellous along midrib and nerves beneath, glabrescent, or glabrous from the beginning, a little shining above, dull beneath, finely pellucid-punctate, sometimes with (glabrous!) domatia at the angle of midrib with the lateral nerves, 10.0-20.0 cm long, 4.0-8.0 cm broad, 3-5-nerved from the base, these nerves ascending almost to the top of the lamina, slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, the outer pair rather obscurely looping with the transverse veins, veinlets laxly reticulate, very slightly raised on both faces; petiole 1.0-1.5(-2.2) cm long. Racemes spiciform, pendulous, axillary, simple or generally subumbellately branched, slender, up to 50.0 cm long incl peduncle (1.0-3.0 cm), all over puberulous. Flowers yellowish-greenish or cream to whitish; pedicels (1.0-)1.5-2.0 mm long. Calyx splitting into 2 or 3 lobes, these pubescent dorsally, reflexed and curled after anthesis, rather persistent, 1.5-2.0 mm long. Stamens 10(-12); filaments ca 0.3 mm long; anthers narrowly deltoid, apiculate, 1.0-1.5 mm long. Disk tomentellous, ca 0.5 mm high. Ovary ovoid, tomentellous; styles 3, flabellate, glabrous, up to 1.0 mm long, finally spreading; stigmas papillate. Capsule subglobular, puberulous, purplish to blackish when fully ripe, 5.0-6.0 (-8.0) mm diam, splitting halfway into 3 valves; pericarp thin-coriaceous; seeds 3-6, ellipsoid, foveolate, 1.5 mm long.

Distribution and Ecology - Costa Rica to Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Amazonian Brazil, E Bolivia; in lowland and upland forest, on terra firme, up to 500malt. Fig 13.

Distribution

Costa Rica South America| Limón Costa Rica Central America| Panama Central America| Colón Panama Central America| San Blás Panama Central America| Darién Panamá Central America| Colombia South America| Magdalena Colombia South America| Bolívar Colombia South America| Antioquia Colombia South America| Chocó Colombia South America| Santander Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America| Amazonas Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| Táchira Venezuela South America| Ecuador South America| Esmeraldas Ecuador South America| Napo Ecuador South America| Peru South America| Loreto Peru South America| Amazonas Peru South America| San Martín Peru South America| Huánuco Peru South America| Junín Peru South America| Cusco Peru South America| Madre de Dios Peru South America| Amazonas Brazil South America| Roraima Brazil South America| Acre Brazil South America| Bolivia South America| Beni Bolivia South America| La Paz Bolivia South America| Santa Cruz Bolivia South America|