flora neotropica - CNCFlora

Systematic Treatment 57
Additional Notes and Descriptions
of Species of Parinari
15. Primary veins 22-26 pairs; leaves 7.5-16 cm long.
16. Upper surface of midrib slightly prominent; petioles terete.
8. P. brasiliensis.
16. Upper surface of midrib slightly impressed on lower portion; petioles
canaliculate. 15. P. chocoensis.
15. Primary veins 16-21 pairs; leaves 3-9.5 cm long.
17. Young petioles canaliculate; leaf reticulation prominent on upper surface.
7. P. pachyphylla.
17. Young petioles terete; leaf reticulation inconspicuous on upper surface.
4. P. excelsa.
The distribution of Parinari as a whole is shown
in Figure 86.
3-3.1. Parinari alvimii Prance, Revista Brasil.
Bot. 2: 37, fig. 6. 1979. Type. Brazil. Bahia:
Una, Fazenda Sao Rafael, 29 Oct 1969 (fl), T.
S. dos Santos 457 (holotype, CEPEC; isotypes,
FHO, NY).
Additional specimens examined. BRAZIL: BAHIA: 8
km S of Itacare, 16 Oct 1968 (fl), Almeida & T. S. dos
Santos 164 (CEPEC, NY); 2 km S of Itacare, 14 Jun
1972 (fl), T. S. dos Santos 2305 (CEPEC, NY); 28 km
from Urucuca on rd. to Serra Grande, 15 Jul 1978 (fl),
Mori et al. 10243 (CEPEC, NY); Bom Gosto, Ilheus,
Mar 1943 (st), Fr6es 12711/80 (A).
Local name. oiti-mirim.
Parinari alvimii differs from all species of Par-
inari, except P. rodolphii and P. campestris, in
its large, amplexicaul stipules. It is quite different
from these two species in the inflorescence, which
Tree to 20 m tall, the young branches densely is compact and smaller with densely crowded
ferrugineous-tomentose, becoming glabrous and flowers, in the larger flowers, and the leaf shape,
conspicuously lenticellate with age. Leaf lamina cordate at base and blunt at apex. Parinari aloblong
to ovate, coriaceous, 5-12 x 4-10 cm, vimii differs from P. littoralis in the stipules, the
subcordate to cordate at base, rounded to very larger leaves, the thicker, rufous petioles, the
bluntly acute at apex glabrous above except on larger bracts and flowers, and the denser inflomidrib,
tomentose and with stomatal cavities rescences. It differs from two eastern Brazilian
obscured by dense pubescence beneath, fre- species, P. excelsa and P. brasiliensis, in the stipquently
with two glands at junction with petiole, ules and bracts, the leaf shape, and the compact
midrib prominent beneath, slightly impressed and inflorescence.
tomentose above; primary veins 17-25 pairs, extremely
prominent beneath, impressed above; 3-9. Parinari klugii Prance, Fl. Neotrop. Monopetioles
3-8 mm long, tomentose, terete. Stipules gr. 9: 190. 1972.
20-35 mm long, semiamplexicaul, persistent,
membranous, exterior pilose-tomentose at cen- Fruit narrowly oblong, 4-6 x 2.2-2.5 cm; exoter
of base, gray-lanate over rest of surface, but carp minutely lenticellate; mesocarp thin, fleshy;
with a few pilose appressed hairs, glabrous with- endocarp hard and fibrous, pubescent within.
in. Inflorescences of terminal and subterminal Distribution (Fig. 88). This species was dedense-flowered
panicles, 3-5 cm long, the rachis scribed from a single collection from the Deand
branches light brown tomentose. Bracts to partment of San Martin, Peru. Recent collections
1 cm long, persistent, ferrugineous, tomentose indicate that it is quite common in Loreto Deon
exterior, enclosing flower buds in small groups. partment.
Receptacle subcampanulate-turbinate, brown- Habitat. It occurs on riverside temporarily
tomentose on exterior, tomentose within. Petals flooded forests and upland terra firme.
five, white, slightly shorter than calyx lobes. Stamens
5-7, unilateral, with short tooth-like stam- Representative additional specimens examined.
inodes opposite them. Ovary and lower two- PERU. AMAZONAS: Huambisha, Rio Santiago, below
thirds of style densely pilose. Fruit unknown. Caterpiza, 20 Nov 1979 (fr), Tunqui 105 (MO, NY).
LORETO: Prov. Requena, Rio Ucayali, Arboretum Je-
Distribution (Fig. 87). Known only from coast- naro Herrera, Jul-Sep 1976 (fl), Bernardi 16334 (G,
al Bahia.
NY); Rio Tacsha, Curaray, 19 Sep 1972 (fl), Croat
Habitat. Littoral forest.
20443 (MO, NY); Rio Itaya nr. Palo Seca, 20 Mar