Aiouea myristicoides Mez

  • Authority

    Kubitzki, K. & Renner, Susanne S. 1982. Lauraceae I (Aniba and Aiouea). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 31: 1-125. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Lauraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Aiouea myristicoides Mez

  • Type

    Type. Brazil. Without locality, Coll. ign. s.n., fl (holotype, P).

  • Synonyms

    Aiouea pernitida C.K.Allen, Aiouea mocambensis Coe-Teix., Aiouea multiflora Coe-Teix.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Tree, to 30 m; branchlets terete, smooth, glabrous, reddish. Leaves chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, shiny green, elliptic or lanceolate, 7-12 x 3-5 cm, base acute, apex acuminate, rarely emarginate, acumen ca. 1 cm long, margins not thickened, glabrous, midrib prominulous above, glabrous, midrib and 8-12 pairs of lateral veins prominent, prominulously reticulate beneath, petioles reddish, glabrous, 1-1.2 cm long. Peduncles often clustered at top of branchlets, reddish, glabrous; pedicels sparsely pilose, glabrescent, 4-7 mm long. Flowers ± glabrous, cream-colored, pale yellow, green or red, 2-3.5 mm long, floral tube obconical, almost glabrous within; tepals shorter than tube, glabrous or minutely pilose within; stamens of series I fertile, series II, III and IV staminodial; outer 3 stamens with basal-latrorse cells, connective strongly protruding beyond cells, longer than filaments, filaments narrower than anthers, glabrous; staminodes II of about same length, glabrous; series III of same length, the glands inserted at middle of filament, reniform, glabrous; staminodes IV triangular, sessile or on very short stalks, glabrous; ovary globose or ellipsoid, merging into style of same length; stigma bigger than cross-section of style. Fruit (almost ripe) elliptical; cupule infundibuliform, pedicel enlarged.

  • Discussion

    The bark is aromatic and the timber is used industrially.

    The characters given by Coe-Teixeira to distinguish the two species she described, ovary size, number of flowers per inflorescence and color of the lower leaf surface, do not hold true.

  • Distribution

    A species of primary forest in northeastern Brazil. Flowers Jul, Aug, Oct, second flowering in Apr; fruits Aug, Oct and Apr.

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