flora neotropica - CNCFlora

Systematic Treatment29
surfaces, glabrous; petioles 6-7 mm long, glabrous,
canaliculate, eglandular. Stipules small,
lanceolate, puberulous, caducous. Inflorescences
terminal and axillary panicles 5-11 cm long,
3-branched, the rachis and branches sparsely gray-
1971 (fl), Contreras 10742 (holotype, LL; iso-
type, US).
Tree ca. 30 m, the young branches glabrous.
Leaf lamina elliptic, 10-21 x 5.5-9.5 cm, the
base rounded to
puberulous. Bracts and bracteoles caducous
subcuneate, the apex with a short
(not
acumen 4-7 mm
seen). Flowers 2.5-3 mm long, borne in 2-3-flow-
long, glabrous on both surfaces;
ered cymules attached to primary branches primary veins 8-10 pairs, prominulous on both
by
short secondary branches or surfaces, secondary venation prominulous and
peduncles. Receptacle
campanulate, gray-puberulous on conspicuously reticulate on both surfaces; midrib
exterior,
tomentose within; pedicels ca. 1 mm prominulous and flattened on both surfaces, glalong,graypuberulous.
Calyx lobes
brous; petioles 3-5 mm long, slightly canalicufive,
acute, gray-puberulous
on both surfaces. Petals five, white. late, glabrous. Stipules small, triangular, axillary.
Stamens 11-12, inserted in a Inflorescences terminal panicles to 13 cm long,
complete circle;
the flowers borne in small
filaments exceeding calyx lobes, free to base.
groups on short sec-
Ovary inserted at base of receptacle, almost ondary branches, the rachis puberulous, soon
glabrous
with only a few hairs. Style lanate on lower glabrescent, the branches gray-tomentellous.
Bracts and bracteoles
portion, equalling filaments in length. Fruit not
small, ovate, tomentellous,
seen.
persistent. Flowers ca. 2.5 mm long. Receptacle
campanulate, tomentellous on exterior. Calyx
Distribution (Fig. 51). Known from only one
lobes small, to 1 mm long, triangular, tomentelcollection
from Costa Rica and one from Panlous
on exterior, puberulous within. Petals white,
ama.
tomentellous on exterior, sticking together and
Habitat. Wet forest.
dehiscing in a calyptra-like mass, 1.2 mm long.
Additional specimen examined. COSTA RICA. Stamens 13-15, inserted in a complete circle;
LIMON: Hone Creek, 8 km S of Cahuita, 30 m, 17 Jul filaments far exceeding calyx lobes, free to base,
1976 (fl), J. & K. Utley 5488 (MO).
glabrous. Ovary inserted at base of receptacle,
Licania kallunkiae belongs to subgenus Mo- tomentose on exterior. Style glabrous. Fruit not
quilea section Moquilea. It is most closely related seen.
to L. minutiflora from the Guianas and Northern Distribution (Fig. 43). Known only from the
Amazonia, but it differs in the inflorescence with type gathering from high forest. Flowering in May.
the flowers borne in small groups on short ter- Licania guatemalensis belongs to subgenus
tiary inflorescence branches, in the smaller leaves Moquilea section Moquilea, but is not easily conwith
a more cuspidate acumen, and in the fewer fused with any other species in the section. The
stamens. Licania kallunkiae has only 11-12 sta- leaves appear quite different from other species
mens, fewer than any other species of the section,
in the section in their venation and flattened
but its exserted stamens and presence of petals,
midrib with short, thick petiole. It is probably
as well as its similarity to L. minutiflora, all place
closest to L. kallunkiae from Panama, but differs
it in section Moquilea. It differs from another in the much longer leaves with abrupt acumen,
related and recently described species from Pan- the shorter, thicker petioles, the smaller petals,
ama in the same section, L. chiriquiensis, in the and the glabrous style.
smaller flowers with a gray-puberulous not yellow-tomentellous
indumentum, the spreading,
2-21.1. Licania cecidiophora Prance, Biotropica
much longer inflorescences, and the thinner,
10: 85, fig. 2A-E. 1978. Type. Peru. Amazochartaceous
leaves with a more cuspidate atten- nas: East of military post Chavez Valdivia, 2-
uate 12
apex.
Feb 1974 (fl bud), Ancuash 752 (holotype,
NY; isotypes, F, MO).
2-18.3. Licania guatemalensis Lundell, Wrightia Large tree to 30 m tall, the young branches
5: 39. 1974; Prance, Acta Amaz6nica 8: 583.
puberulous, becoming glabrous with age. Leaf
1978. Type. Guatemala. Izabal: Between Seja lamina oblong, coriaceous, 9-12 x 3-5 cm,
and Fronteras on Peten-Guatemala Rd., 6 May rounded at base and slightly decurrent into the