Pogonophora schomburgkiana Miers ex Benth.

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1967. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part VII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 17: 1-439.

  • Family

    Euphorbiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pogonophora schomburgkiana Miers ex Benth.

  • Description

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    Distribution and Ecology - Hylaea, the Guianas, and upper Orinoco regions. VENEZUELA. Bolivar: "El Paraiso," 38 km al NE del caserio Los Rosos, al cual esta en la carretera Upata—San Felix a 17 km de Upata, Blanco 315 (fr. NY); Amazonas: occasional, just below mouth of Cano Y"apacana, alt 125 m, 18 Jun 1959. Wurdack & Adderley 43048 (fr. NY). BRITISH GUIANA. Mazaruni Station, alt 50 ft, 29 Dec 1933, Fanshawe 26, R.N. 2587 (male NY); Mazaruni Station, low level white sand areas, 4 Sep 1942, Fanshawe 834, R.N. 3570 (female NY); Mazaruni Station, growing from old stump along the riverside, 23 Apr 1945, CAP 3, RN 5256, (female NY). SURINAME. Sectie O, Arbor no. 512, 27 Nov 1922, Collector ? s.n. Herb. No. 6015 (male NY); Zanderij, May 1945, Wood herbarium Collector ? 296 (sterile NY). BRAZIL. Amazonas: Rio Negro, Santa Isabel, 10 Apr 1929, Tate 979, type of Poraresia anomala Gleason, (male NY); Santa Isabel, Tate 990 (female NY); Quatia praia baixol, 8 Dec 1936, Ducke 33827 (male NY); Manaos, Cachoeirinha, 19 Jul 1936, Ducke 240 (male NY); Manaos, along road to Aleixo, 12 Aug-1 Sep 1936 Krukoff 7963 (juv. NY); Sao Paulo de Olivenca, 26 Oct-11 Dec 1936, Krukoff 8645 (male NY) 8815 (female NY); Para: vicinity of Belem, 8 Feb 1943, Archer 8245 (female NY); 2 Feb 1944, Antonio Silva 74 (male NY); 20 Dec 1950, Pires 2698 (male NY);15 Jan 1957, Black 57-19002 (male NY); Sept-Oct 1961, Pires 51927 wood voucher (sterile NY); Guanabana: Rio de Janeiro, 18 Oct 1926, Kuhlmann 61322 (male buds NY") without further details, Martius s.n. (male NY).

  • Discussion

    Pogonophora schomburgkiana var longifolia Miers ex Bentham, Jour Bot & Kew Misc 6:372. 1854.

    Poraresia anomala Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 58 : 385. 1931. (type, NY, Santa Izabel Tate 979).

    Pogonophora schomburgkiana f elliptica Pax, Pflanzenreich 47: 109. 1911.

    Cunuria (?) casiquiarensis Croizat, Jour. Arnold Arb. 26: 192. 1945 (type, US, photo in Am. Arb. 29 May 1942, Amazonas: Alto Casiquiare, Capituara, Llewelyn Williams 15690, alt 120m).

    Type. Bentham designated none. In his original description he quoted 3 speci­mens from Rio Negro and 2 from southern Brazil: Rio Negro (Rob. Schomburgk 859), Capoeiras near Barra (R. Spruce), Gapo at San Gabriel do Cachoeiras (R. Spruce), Province of Pernambuco (Gardner), and Brazil, without the precise station (Swanson herb. Hook.)

  • Distribution

    Hylaea, the Guianas, and upper Orinoco regions.

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