flora neotropica - CNCFlora
flora neotropica - CNCFlora
flora neotropica - CNCFlora
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92 Flora Neotropica<br />
Additional specimen examined. BRAZIL. BAHIA:<br />
Mun. de Mucuri, 7 km NW of Mucuri, 14 Sep 1978<br />
(fl), Mori et al. 10470 (CEPEC, NY).<br />
7-34. Hirtella leonotis Pittier, Arb. Arbust. Ve-<br />
nez. 2: 23. 1923.<br />
Fruit ovoid, ca. 2 cm in diam.; exocarp densely<br />
tomentellous.<br />
Distribution (Fig. 136). Forests of northern<br />
Colombia and Venezuela; in Venezuela only in<br />
the Federal District and State of Miranda.<br />
This species was known only from the type in<br />
1972. Recent collections from Cerros de Ba-<br />
chiller and Guatopo show that it is a most dis-<br />
tinct species. The fruit can now be described. It<br />
is one of the few species of Hirtella that has a<br />
densely tomentose exocarp.<br />
7-37. Hirtella bahiensis Prance, Fl. Neotrop.<br />
Monogr. 9: 307. 1972. Fig. 122.<br />
Additional specimens examined. BRAZIL. BAHIA: Nr.<br />
Santa Cruz de Cabralia, 21 Oct 1978 (fl), Mori 10936<br />
(CEPEC, NY); Ilh6us Rd. to Olivenga, 12 Nov 1970<br />
(fl), T. S. dos Santos 1284 (NY). ESPIRITO SANTO: Reserva<br />
Florestal CVRD, Linhares, 24 Nov 1978 (fl), I.<br />
A. Silva 30 (INPA).<br />
7-40.1 Hirtella magnifolia Prance, Acta Ama-<br />
zonica 8: 585, 587, fig. 5. 1979. Type. Brazil.<br />
Amazonas: Rio Javari, Estirao do Equador,<br />
21 Oct 1976 (fl), Prance et al. 23974 (holotype,<br />
INPA; isotypes, FHO, MG, MO, NY, US).<br />
Tree to 10 m tall, the young branches shortly<br />
tomentellous becoming glabrous and conspicu-<br />
ously lenticellate with age. Leaf lamina oblong-<br />
elliptic, chartaceous, 18-40 x 8-16 cm, the base<br />
rounded, abruptly acuminate at apex, the acu-<br />
men 7-13 mm long, curved, glabrous above, with<br />
a few stiff appressed hairs beneath on venation,<br />
with two glands at junction of upper surface of<br />
lamina and the petioles; primary veins 14-18<br />
pairs, prominent beneath, prominulous above;<br />
midrib prominent beneath, prominulous above,<br />
tomentellous on both surfaces; petioles 5-9 mm<br />
long, 3.5-6 mm thick, tomentellous, eglandular,<br />
terete. Stipules early caducous (not seen). Inflorescences<br />
terminal panicles with a long central<br />
rachis 12-18 cm long and many short few-flowered<br />
lateral primary branches, the rachis and<br />
branches rufous-tomentellous. Bracts and bracteoles<br />
ovate, persistent, gray-brown-tomentellous<br />
on both surfaces, eglandular. Flowers 5-6<br />
mm long. Receptacle campanulate, tomentellous<br />
Additional specimens examined. COLOMBIA. on<br />
ANTIOQUIA: Buenos Aires forest above rd. to Anori, 26 exterior, glabrous within except for sparsely<br />
Apr 1973 (fl), Soejarto et al. 4025 (MO); Autopista pilose area around throat; pedicels 1-2 mm long,<br />
Medellin-Bogoti, Setor Rio Samara-Rio Claro, 400- tomentellous. Calyx lobes five, acute, gray-to-<br />
1000 m, 19 Mar 1982 (fl), Herndndez & Albert de E. mentellous on both surfaces. Petals five, white,<br />
244 (HUA).<br />
glabrous. Stamens 5-7, unilateral with toothed<br />
VENEZUELA. MIRANDA: Parque Nacional de Guatopo<br />
(fr), Aristeguieta 7096 (VEN); Cerros del Ba- portion of ring opposite to them, filaments far<br />
chiller, 25 Mar 1978 (st), Steyermark & Davidse 116868 exceeding calyx lobes. Ovary inserted at mouth<br />
(MO, NY, VEN), 25 Mar 1978 (fl, fr), Steyermark & of receptacle, pilose. Style glabrous. Fruit not<br />
Davidse 116933 (MO, NY, VEN).<br />
seen.<br />
Distribution (Fig. 138). Known only from Loreto,<br />
Peru, and adjacent Brazil.<br />
Habitat. Upland forest on terra firme, understory<br />
in open clearings.<br />
Additional specimens examined. PERU. LORETO:<br />
Prov. Requena, Arboretum Jenaro Herrera, Jul-Sep<br />
1976 (fl), Bernardi 1-56 (G, NY), 15 Nov 1974 (fl),<br />
Diaz s.n. (G), 7 Dec 1977 (st), Gentry et al. 21213<br />
(MO, NY).<br />
Hirtella magnifolia has the largest leaves of<br />
any described species of the genus, often attain-<br />
ing 40 cm in length on the fertile branches. It is<br />
most closely related to H. elongata and H. er-<br />
iandra, but differs from both in the larger leaves<br />
with a greater number of primary veins. It differs<br />
further from H. elongata in the rufous-tomen-<br />
tellous pubescence of the inflorescence, the two<br />
glands at the junction of the upper surface of the<br />
leaf lamina and the petioles, the rounded not<br />
subcordate leaf bases, and the longer inflores-<br />
cence branches; and further from H. eriandra in<br />
the inflorescence branching and the laminar<br />
glands.<br />
7-48. Hirtella rasa Standley, Publ. Field Mus.<br />
Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 17: 252. 1937. Fig. 146.<br />
Additional specimen examined. PERU. LORETO: Pu-<br />
callpa, km 75, 9 Sep 1980 (fl), Angelo 11 (MO, NY).<br />
Local name. lobo apacharama.