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Systematic Treatment51<br />

2-124. Licania micrantha Miquel, Stirp. suri-<br />

nam. select. 20. 1850.<br />

Distribution (Fig. 63). This species is wide-<br />

spread in Venezuela, Amazonia, and the Guia-<br />

nas. Its known range has now been extended west<br />

of the Andes from recent collections from Choc6<br />

and Valle in Colombia, and also to Atlantic<br />

coastal Brazil in the forests of Bahia.<br />

2-126.1. Licania aracaensis Prance, Brittonia 28:<br />

223, fig. 10. 1976. Type. Brazil. Amazonas:<br />

Serra Araca, 1?N, 63?W, 10 Feb 1975 (fl), Pires<br />

15027 (holotype, IAN; isotypes, INPA, NY).<br />

Tree 2 m tall, the young branches puberulous,<br />

soon becoming glabrous and lenticellate. Leaf<br />

lamina oblong, conduplicate, coriaceous, 3-5.5<br />

x 2-2.8 cm, subcuneate at base, acute to bluntly<br />

acuminate at apex, the acumen 2-6 mm long,<br />

glabrous above, densely lanate-tomentose beneath;<br />

midrib plane above, prominulous beneath;<br />

primary veins 6-8 pairs, plane above,<br />

prominulous beneath; petioles 3-4 mm long, terete,<br />

sparsely puberulous, eglandular. Stipules<br />

persistent, lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm long, adnate to<br />

base of petiole. Inflorescences terminal and subterminal<br />

racemose panicles, 4-7.5 cm long; rachis<br />

and branches puberulous. Bracts and bracteoles<br />

triangular, persistent, tomentose on<br />

exterior, ca. 0.75 mm long. Flowers ca. 2 mm<br />

long. Receptacle urceolate, sessile, yellow-tomentellous<br />

on exterior, tomentose towards base<br />

and glabrous above on interior. Calyx lobes five,<br />

acute, tomentellous on exterior, puberulous<br />

within. Petals absent. Stamens three, unilateral,<br />

opposite three calyx lobes; filaments glabrous,<br />

shorter than calyx lobes. Ovary tomentose. Style<br />

puberulous, shorter than calyx lobes. Fruit pyr-<br />

iform; exocarp glabrous, wrinkled when dry, the<br />

stipe 5-10 mm in dry fruit.<br />

Distribution (Fig. 25). This species is appar-<br />

ently endemic to the summit of the sandstone<br />

mountain Serra Araca at about 1000 m, flow-<br />

ering in February.<br />

Additional specimens examined. BRAZIL.<br />

AMAZONAS: Serra Araca, 1 Feb 1978 (fr), Rosa & Lira<br />

2337 (IAN, NY), 22 Feb 1984 (fr), Tavares et al. 114<br />

(INPA, NY).<br />

Additional specimens examined. COLOMBIA.<br />

CHOCO: Rio Fujiad6, afluente del Rio San Juan, 4?36'N, 2-128. Licania bracteata<br />

76?54'W, 7 Apr 1979 (fl), Forero et al. 4788 Prance, Fl. Neotrop.<br />

(COL,<br />

MO). VALLE: Mun. Buenaventura, Concesi6n Cart6n Monogr. 9:155. 1972.<br />

de Colombia, 15 Nov 1979 (fl), van Rooden et al. 358<br />

Distribution<br />

(NY, U), 6 Dec 1979 (fl), van Rooden et al. 553 (Fig. 29). This species was de-<br />

(NY,<br />

U).<br />

scribed from considerable material from the vi-<br />

BRAZIL. BAHIA: Mun. Una, Maruim, 28 Apr 1981 cinity of Manaus, Brazil, where it is quite com-<br />

(st), Mori et al. 13774 (CEPEC, NY), 1 May 1981 (st), mon in the forests on terra firme. Recently it has<br />

Mori et al. 13884 (NY), 13 May 1981 (st), Mori et al. also been collected in Peru.<br />

14000 (NY); Esta;ao Experimental Lemos Maia, 24<br />

Oct 1980 (fr), Rylands 42/80 (NY), 11 Nov 1980 (st), Additional specimens examined. PERU. LORETO: Rio<br />

Rylands 56/80 (NY).<br />

Nanay, Santa Maria, 30 May 1963 (fl, fr), Ar6stegui V.<br />

105 (US); Rio Nanay, 28 Oct 1965 (fl), A. G. Ruiz 224<br />

(NY, US).<br />

Local name. Peru: parinari.<br />

2-130.1. Licania lamentanda Prance, sp. nov.<br />

Type. Brazil. Bahia: Municipality of Ilheus, 4<br />

km N of Oliven9a on road to Ilheus, 19 Apr<br />

1981 (fl), S. A. Mori et al. 13673 (holotype,<br />

CEPEC; isotype, NY). Fig. 12.<br />

Species sectione Licania pertinens. Folia 12-<br />

16.5 cm longa, petiolo 1.1-1.5 cm longo, velu-<br />

tino-tomentello. Flores 4.5-5.5 mm longi, sta-<br />

minibus 6-7, ovario densissime tomentoso.<br />

Tree, the young branches shortly tomentellous,<br />

becoming glabrous with age. Leaf lamina ob-<br />

long-elliptic, coriaceous, 12-16.5 x 6-8.5 cm,<br />

subcuneate to rounded at base, rounded to apic-<br />

ulate at apex, glabrous above, with a short ap-<br />

pressed-lanate brown pubescence beneath; mid-<br />

rib prominulous above, prominent beneath;<br />

primary veins 10-12 pairs, prominulous above,<br />

prominent beneath, secondary venation promi-<br />

nulous, ca. more or less parallel at 90? to primary<br />

veins; petioles 1.1-1.5 cm long, velutinous-to-<br />

mentellous, terete or weakly canaliculate above,<br />

eglandular. Stipules caducous (not seen). Inflo-<br />

rescences of racemose panicles, 10-14 cm long,<br />

the rachis and branches shortly tomentellous.<br />

Bracts and bracteoles membranous, persistent,

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