Dichapetalum axillare Woodson

  • Authority

    Prance, Ghillean T. 1972. Dichapetalaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 10: 1-84. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Dichapetalaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Dichapetalum axillare Woodson

  • Type

    TYPE. Allen 2202, Panama, Cocle, hills north of El Valle de Anton, fl (holotype, MO; isotypes, EAP, GH, NY, US).

  • Synonyms

    Dichapetalum brenesii Standl.

  • Description

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    Description - Shrub or small tree, the young branches sparsely tomentellous, becoming glabrous with age. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, 6.0-16.0 cm long, 2.2-6.5 cm broad, the apex tapered to a long slender acumen 5.0-25.0 mm long, usually subcuneate at base, plane not bullate above, glabrous or with a few stiff appressed hairs beneath; midrib impressed to slightly prominent above; primary veins 7-9 pairs, plane above, venation more or less plane above; petioles 4.0-8.0 mm long, tomentellous to tomentose. Stipules to 2.0 mm long, deltoid, tomentose, caducous. Flowers hermaphrodite; pedicels 0.2-1.0 mm long. Inflorescences short terminal, axillary or petiolar panicles, the rachis and branches gray-brown tomentose. Bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, 0.5-2.0 mm long, tomentose, persistent. Calyx ca 2.5 mm long, the lobes almost equal, tomentose on exterior. Corolla of 5 equal, deeply bifid and slightly cucullate lobes, glabrous, free to base. Fertile stamens 5, alternating with and equalling corolla lobes. Disc of 5 tack-like, free glands. Ovary bilocular or trilocular with 2 ovules in each loculus, lanate on exterior. Style lanate at base, glabrescent above, the apex trifid. Fruit irregularly elongate-ellipsoid, to 3.8 cm long; epicarp shortly gray-brown tomentellous; mesocarp thin, endocarp thin, bony, glabrous within.

  • Discussion

    Flowering March to July.

  • Distribution

    Mountain and coastal forests of Costa Rica, Panama and northern Colombia in shady places.

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