Ardisia dukei Lundell

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Primulaceae > Ardisia

Characteristics

Trees, branchlets thick, furfuraceous with small reddish-brown scales. Leaves large, subsessile, the marginate petioles to 7 mm long; leaf blades membra-naceous, oblanceolate-elliptic, to 30 cm long and 11 cm wide, subabruptly acuminate apically, acute basally, attenuate and decurrent on the petiole, glabrous on the upper surface, appressed furfuraceous beneath. Inflorescences terminal, pyramidal, large, tripinnately paniculate, densely furfuraceous, ca. 30 cm high, ca. 30 cm wide basally. Flowers subcorymbose, 5-merous; pedicels stout, 1.5-2 mm long; sepals ovate, 1-1.3 mm long, ciliolate, glabrous, black-punctate; ovary subglobose, glabrous, the ovules 22-24, pluriseriate, the style ca. 3 mm long.
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Germination duration (days) 90 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 23
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Distribution

Ardisia dukei world distribution map, present in Panama

Conservation status

Ardisia dukei threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:272544-2
WFO ID wfo-0000544239
COL ID GD25
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Synonyms

Ardisia dukei Auriculardisia dukei Icacorea dukei