Shrub or small tree, rarely large tree to 29 m; branchlets glabrous, shiny, 2.5 mm diam., terminal bud slender, 6 mm long, glabrous or ± tomentellous. Leaves subverticillate, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous, obovate or obovate-lanceolate, (6-)10(-22) x (2-)3(-ll) cm, gradually acute towards base, abruptly rounded or subcordate at base, apex obtuse or acute and mostly acuminate, the acumen 0.2-2 cm long, midrib and nerves little prominent or flat above, slightly prominent beneath, veins reticulate, nerves 7-13 pairs, erect-patent and arcuately fused 2-5 mm from margin, margin flat; petioles short, thick, glabrous, verruculous, canaliculate, 2-7 mm long. Panicles subterminal, congested below terminal bud in axils of deciduous bracts, to 12 cm long, peduncles sparsely tomentellous or subglabrous and thin (0.6 mm diam.), rarely tomentellous and coarse (1.2 mm in diam.). Flowers sparsely pubescent or subglabrous, rarely tomentellous, 2.5-3 x 1.8 mm, floral tube gradually merging into pedicel, inside (sub-)glabrous at base; flowers subsessile, or pedicels to 5 mm long; tepals erect, glabrous inside (sometimes slightly appressed-pilose at base), outer ones distinctly smaller than inner ones, outer ones ovate, ciliate at margin, 0.4-0.7(-1.2) mm long, inner ones subrotundate, fimbriate at margin, 1.0-1.4 mm long; stamens included, 0.8-1.2(-l.5) mm long, those of ser. I and II with depressed, glabrous anthers, large cells, and slightly protruding, papillose connectives and hirsute filaments narrower than anthers or as wide as anthers, stamens of ser. III with glabrous, broadly rounded anthers and pilose, biglandulose filaments; staminodes absent; pistil glabrous, 1.8-2.2 mm long; style as long as ovary; stigma oblique, peltate, medium-sized or very large. Berry ellipsoid, to 3 x 2.2 cm; cupule cyathiform, red, 1.4 x 1.6 cm, beset with many rusty warts. A tree and shrub of riverine and non-inundated high forests and of the Campina forest. In Peru flowers in Mar, elsewhere Jun-Oct; fruits Apr-Aug. According to Richard, the natives make use of the berries to catch koumarou fish. One collection ( Ducke RB19967) is annotated as bearing red cupules and therefore this species seems to possess the ornithochorous syndrome. A tree and shrub of riverine and non-inundated high forests and of the Campina forest. In Peru flowers in Mar, elsewhere Jun-Oct; fruits Apr-Aug. According to Richard, the natives make use of the berries to catch koumarou fish. One collection ( Ducke RB19967) is annotated as bearing red cupules and therefore this species seems to possess the ornithochorous syndrome. Shrub or small tree, rarely large tree to 29 m; branchlets glabrous, shiny, 2.5 mm diam., terminal bud slender, 6 mm long, glabrous or ± tomentellous. Leaves subverticillate, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous, obovate or obovate-lanceolate, (6-)10(-22) x (2-)3(-ll) cm, gradually acute towards base, abruptly rounded or subcordate at base, apex obtuse or acute and mostly acuminate, the acumen 0.2-2 cm long, midrib and nerves little prominent or flat above, slightly prominent beneath, veins reticulate, nerves 7-13 pairs, erect-patent and arcuately fused 2-5 mm from margin, margin flat; petioles short, thick, glabrous, verruculous, canaliculate, 2-7 mm long. Panicles subterminal, congested below terminal bud in axils of deciduous bracts, to 12 cm long, peduncles sparsely tomentellous or subglabrous and thin (0.6 mm diam.), rarely tomentellous and coarse (1.2 mm in diam.). Flowers sparsely pubescent or subglabrous, rarely tomentellous, 2.5-3 x 1.8 mm, floral tube gradually merging into pedicel, inside (sub-)glabrous at base; flowers subsessile, or pedicels to 5 mm long; tepals erect, glabrous inside (sometimes slightly appressed-pilose at base), outer ones distinctly smaller than inner ones, outer ones ovate, ciliate at margin, 0.4-0.7(-1.2) mm long, inner ones subrotundate, fimbriate at margin, 1.0-1.4 mm long; stamens included, 0.8-1.2(-l.5) mm long, those of ser. I and II with depressed, glabrous anthers, large cells, and slightly protruding, papillose connectives and hirsute filaments narrower than anthers or as wide as anthers, stamens of ser. III with glabrous, broadly rounded anthers and pilose, biglandulose filaments; staminodes absent; pistil glabrous, 1.8-2.2 mm long; style as long as ovary; stigma oblique, peltate, medium-sized or very large. Berry ellipsoid, to 3 x 2.2 cm; cupule cyathiform, red, 1.4 x 1.6 cm, beset with many rusty warts. Terrícola Árvore Arbusto ArbustoGeneral Information
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