Caraipa llanorum Cuatrec. subsp. llanorum

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1978. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part X. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 29: 1-288.

  • Family

    Clusiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Caraipa llanorum Cuatrec. subsp. llanorum

  • Description

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    Subspecies Description - Tree 3-15 m in height; bark rough, gray, inner bark exuding a sticky ambercoloured juice; young branchlets stellate-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves spiral, coriaceous, above minutely stellate-pubescent along the midrib only, beneath with scattered minute sessile hairs along the midrib, the nerves, and the veins, elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate, 1.9-3.3 times longer than wide, 4.5-10 cm long, 1.7-4 cm wide, the base rounded, obtuse, or acute, the top rounded or obtuse, sometimes protracted in a short (-3 mm long) obtuse acumen, the midrib prominent and the nerves slightly elevated beneath, nerves 9-17 pairs, tertiary veins reticulate, the margin slightly revolute, translucent dots not visible; petiole pubescent, later glabrescent, 2-4(-6) mm long. Inflorescences terminal few- to manyflowered panicles up to 15 cm long, the branches and pedicels densely or laxly stellate-pubescent, bracts and bracteoles caducous, the bracteoles inserted at the middle or above the middle of the pedicels, pedicels 4-7 mm long. Flower buds before anthesis globose to ellipsoid, 4-5 mm long, the sepals and petals tomentellous outside, sepals subcoriaceous, obtuse, free lobes about 1.5 mm wide and long, petals elliptic, about 0.8 cm long, ovary ferrugineous-tomentellous. Capsule obUliquely pyramid-shaped, trigonous with slightly concave valves, outside smooth and gray-tomentellous, with 1-2 fertile cells, 1.5-1.7 cm long and 1-1.3 cm wide at the base, exocarp separable from endocarp, seeds flattened, oval, winged in the upper part.

  • Discussion

    Vernacular names, "saladillo" (Arauca); "saladillo sabanero" (Sanariapo); "saladio" (Sipapo River). Note. One collection from Rio Ventuari (Maguire et al 30906, M, NY) is distinguished by glabrous capsules.