Pradosia mutisii Cronquist

  • Authority

    Pennington, Terence D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52: 1-750. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Sapotaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pradosia mutisii Cronquist

  • Type

    Type. Colombia. Without precise locality, Mutis 4004 (holotype, US).

  • Description

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    Species Description - Young shoots sparsely appressed puberulous, soon glabrous, greyish-brown, smooth, lenticellate. Leaves spaced, spirally arranged, 4.2-12.5 × 2.3-4.9 cm, oblanceolate to broadly elliptic, apex obtusely cuspidate to shortly narrowly attenuate, base shortly narrowly attenuate, chartaceous, glaborus; venation eucamptodromous, marginal vein present, midrib sunken on the upper surface, secondary veins 12-15 pairs, parallel, slightly arcuate, not impressed; intersecondaries long; tertiaries finely reticulate-areolate. Peticle 1.2-2 cm long, channelled, glabrous, stipels absent. Fascicles 2-10-flowered, axillary and below the leaves. Pedicel 0.5-1 mm long, glabrous. Sepals five, ca. 1 mm long, suborbicular, apex rounded, glabrous. Corolla 2.5-3 mm long, tube ca. 1 mm long, lobes five, 1.5-2 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse or rounded, glabrous. Stamens five, fixed at the base of the corolla lobes; filaments ca. 2 mm long, glabrous; anthers ca. 0.6 mm long, broadly lanceolate, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, five-locular, appressed puberulous; style ca. 0.3 mm long after anthesis, glabrous; style-head simple. Fruit unknown.

  • Distribution

    Known only from four Mutis collections from Colombia. The collections are without precise localities or other data.

    Colombia South America|