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French Guiana to Para, Brazil, confined to swampy land and permanently flooded forest.

Tree; young shoots minutely appressed puberulous, soon glabrous, grey-brown, smooth, without lenticels. Leaves spaced or loosely clustered, opposite, 5-15 × 3.2-6.2 cm, elliptic, apex acute to rounded, base acute, chartaceous, glabrous; venation eucamptodromous, marginal vein present, midrib broad, flat or slightly raised on the upper surface, secondary veins 10-15 pairs, usually sinuous, parallel or divergent, slightly raised on upper surface; intersecondaries absent, tertiaries fine, numerous, oblique; quaternaries finely reticulate. Petiole 0.4-1.5 cm long, broad, not channelled, minutely appressed puberulous or glabrous, stipels absent. Fascicles 2-5-flowered, clustered below the leaves. Pedicel 1-4 mm long, appressed puberulous. Sepals five, 2-2.25 mm long, ovate, apex rounded, appressed puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Corolla ca. 5 mm long, tube ca. 1.5 mm long, lobes five, ca. 3.5 mm long, elliptic, apex obtuse, glabrous. Stamens five, fixed at the base of the corolla lobes; filaments ca. 2 mm long, glabrous; anthers ca. 1 mm long, lanceolate, glabrous. Ovary not seen. Fruit 3-3.5 cm long, ovoid or elliptic, apex rounded (slightly depressed when dry), base rounded, glabrous. Seed solitary; mature seed not seen. Field characters. Tree to 30 m high with large buttresses and greyish-white sweet-tasting bark. Flowers whitish in Jan, fruit recorded Jan, Apr-May and Dec.

Tallo: filotaxia subopuesta(s) o opuesta(s); lenticela(s) ausente(s). Hoja: venación intersecundaria(s) ausente(s); textura foliar(es) cartacea(s); patrón de venación eucamptódroma(s); venación primária(s) en la(s) superficie(s) adaxial plana(s)/proeminente(s); pecíolo(s) cilíndrico(s); estipela(s) ausente(s). Inflorescencia: posición de la inflorescencia(s) ramiflora(s). Flor: color predominantemente presente(s) en la(s) corola verde o verdosa. Fruto: epicarpo glabro(s); superficie(s) lisa(s). Stem: phylotaxy subopposite or opposite; lenticel absent. Leaf: venation intersecondary absent; texture foliar chartaceous; pattern of the venation eucamptodromous; venation primary on the surface adaxial flat/prominent; petiole cylindric; stipel absent. Inflorescence: position of the inflorescence ramiflorous. Flower: colour predominantly present on the corolla green or greenish. Fruit: epicarp glabrous; surface smooth. Caule: filotaxia suboposta(s) ou oposta(s); lenticela(s) ausente(s). Folha: venação intersecundária(s) ausente(s); textura foliar(es) cartácea(s); padrão de venação eucamptódroma(s); venação primária(s) na(s) superfície(s) adaxial plana(s)/proeminente(s); pecíolo(s) cilíndrico(s); estipela(s) ausente(s). Inflorescência: posição da inflorescência(s) ramiflora(s). Flor: cor predominantemente presente(s) na(s) corola verde ou esverdeada. Fruto: epicarpo glabro(s); superfície(s) lisa(s). Stem: phylotaxy subopposite or opposite; lenticel absent. Leaf: venation intersecondary absent; texture foliar chartaceous; pattern of the venation eucamptodromous; venation primary on the surface adaxial flat/prominent; petiole cylindric; stipel absent. Inflorescence: position of the inflorescence ramiflorous. Flower: colour predominantly present on the corolla green or greenish. Fruit: epicarp glabrous; surface smooth. Caule: filotaxia suboposta(s) ou oposta(s); lenticela(s) ausente(s). Folha: venação intersecundária(s) ausente(s); textura foliar(es) cartácea(s); padrão de venação eucamptódroma(s); venação primária(s) na(s) superfície(s) adaxial plana(s)/proeminente(s); pecíolo(s) cilíndrico(s); estipela(s) ausente(s). Inflorescência: posição da inflorescência(s) ramiflora(s). Flor: cor predominantemente presente(s) na(s) corola verde ou esverdeada. Fruto: epicarpo glabro(s); superfície(s) lisa(s).

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