Ardisia furfuracella Standl.

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Primulaceae > Ardisia

Characteristics

Trees, the branchlets terete, at first short and slender, minutely furfu-raceous with inconspicuous interpetiolar ridges. Leaves with canaliculate slender petioles 5-8(-15) mm long; leaf blades chartaceous, paler beneath, entire or subentire, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 6-17.5 cm long and 2.5-5.5 cm wide, acuminate or sub-abruptly acuminate apically, the acumen acutish, acute basally, the costa elevated above, prominent beneath, the primary veins slender but conspicuous on both surfaces, glabrous above, obscurely and minutely lepidote beneath, the scales scarcely discernible. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, pyramidal, paniculate, many-flowered, lepidote to sparsely lepidote. Flowers 5-merous, umbellate or subcorymbose; sepals in fruit oblong-ovate, 1.2-1.4 mm long, punctate with orange glands, the margin hyaline, obtuse or rounded apically; mature flowers unknown. Fruit globose, 5-6 mm diameter.
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Germination duration (days) 90 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 23
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Distribution

Ardisia furfuracella world distribution map, present in Panama

Conservation status

Ardisia furfuracella threat status: Vulnerable

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:18153-2
WFO ID wfo-0000544334
COL ID GD4T
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Synonyms

Ardisia furfuracella Icacorea furfuracella Ardisia furfuracella subsp. furfuracella