Mabea elegans Rusby

  • Authority

    Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.

  • Family

    Euphorbiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Mabea elegans Rusby

  • Description

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    Species Description - Ferruginous-tomentellate. Branchlets slender, terete. Stipules 5 to 8 mm. long, linear, mostly obtuse. Petioles 5 mm. long, stout. Blades 5 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide, lance-oblong, with rounded base and acutely mucronate summit, thickish, the upper surface nearly glabrous, with the midrib and secondaries often slightly impressed, prominent beneath, the secondaries about 12 on each side, connecting at some distance from the margin, their branches loosely reticulate along the margin. Racemes peduncled in the upper axils, sometimes branched. Bracts of the staminate flowers half as long as the pedicels, ovate, obtuse, thick, bearing two large oblong glands on the margin, about the middle. Pedicel stout, nearly 5 mm. long. Unexpanded flower depressed globose, nearly 2 mm. broad. Stamens numerous, small, connate for about half their length. Bracts of the pistillate flowers lance-linear, acuminate. Fruiting pedicel enlarged upward, recurved, the persistent sepals ovate, obtuse, 2-glandular like the bracts of the staminate flowers. Capsule subglobose.

  • Distribution

    On the Rio Ibon, 500 feet, February 18, 1922 (no. 2379). "Flowers greenish-yellow, a single pistillate flower at the base of each raceme."

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