Ardisia fendleri Lundell

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Primulaceae > Ardisia

Characteristics

Trees, the branchlets thick, at first lepidote. Leaves petiolate, the petioles thick, marginate, 5-10 mm long; leaf blades subchartaceous, entire or incon-spicuously subentire, oblong-elliptic or elliptic, 10-20 cm long and 4.5-9.5 cm wide subabruptly short acuminate apically, the acumen acutish, smooth and glabrous above, at first sparsely appressed-furfuraceous beneath, glabrate, the costa shallowly sulcate above, elevated beneath, the primary veins slender, 15-19 pairs with intermediaries. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, large and open, tripinnately paniculate, to 10 cm long, sparsely lepidote. Flowers subcorymbose, 5-merous; pedicels 5-7 mm long; sepals ovate-elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm long, rounded apically, minutely erose, punctate; petals elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 6 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, connate basally, lineate-punctate; stamens 4-4.5 mm long, the filaments ca. 1.5 mm long, the anthers linear-oblong, ca. 3 mm long, subtruncate apically, dehiscent by apical pores; ovary subglobose, glabrous, the ovules pluriseriate, numerous, the style slender, 5.5 mm long. Fruit globose, 6-7 mm in diameter.
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 30.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Germination duration (days) 90 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 23
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Distribution

Ardisia fendleri world distribution map, present in Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:18140-2
WFO ID wfo-0000544289
COL ID GD3M
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Synonyms

Ardisia acutata Ardisia campanensis Ardisia fendleri Ardisia guinealensis Ardisia santafeana Icacorea proctorii Ardisia antonensis Ardisia oaxacana Ardisia proctorii Ardisia raveniana Icacorea santafeana Icacorea guinealensis Icacorea oaxacana