Ouratea flexuosa 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

    Ochnaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Ouratea flexuosa Rusby

  • Description

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    Species Description - Glabrous, the branches recurved or flexuous, mostly stout, gray, more or less annulate. Leaves 6 cm. to 18 cm. long, and 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, mostly narrowly oblanceolate, with acuminate and acute summit, and long-acuminate base tapering into a short dark-brown margined petiole about 5 mm. long; thickish and rigid, slightly lustrous on both sides, finely and very sharply serrate, the venation slightly prominent on both sides, the midrib strongly so, the principal secondaries abruptly upcurved and then erect, connected with the midrib by numerous finer ones. Racemes terminal, short, densely flowered, the rachis thick, stout and nodose from the fallen flowers. Pedicel thick, nearly as long as the sepals, which are 6 to 7 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, lanceolate, thick, dark-colored. Petals about equaling the sepals, ovate, dark-yellow. Anthers subsessile, as long as the petals, narrowly lanceolate, the white pores very small. Ovary 1 mm. wide and about half as long, blackish, the stout stipe about 1.5 mm. long, the stout style equaling the stamens.

  • Distribution

    In the Bopi River valley, 3,000 feet, Rusby & White, August, 1921 (no. 667).

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