WorldFloraDB - Hasseltia guatemalensis

Characteristics

Tree to 30 m tall, the trunk to 55 cm in diam, the branchlets puberulous when young. Leaves with the petioles to 2 cm long, canaliculate above, appressed-puber-ulous when young; blade elliptic, obtuse to acute at the base, obtuse to obtusely short-acuminate at the apex, subentire-margined, to 12.5 cm long and 5.5 cm wide, chartaceous, somewhat shiny and glabrous above, dull and sparsely appressed-puberulous when young especially along the veins beneath, the main veins and secondary veins prominulous beneath. Inflorescences large and many-flowered, the axes puberulous to tomentellous. Flowers with the pedicels slender, to 1 cm long,

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tomentellous; sepals (3-)4, ovate, acute, ca 4 mm long and 3 mm wide, tomentel-lous; petals (3-)4, ovate, acute, ca as long as the sepals but somewhat narrower, tomentellous; stamens inserted on a glandular disc, with glabrous filaments to 3 mm long; ovary puberulous, 2-or 3-celled, the style ca 1.5 mm long. Bacca, (im-mature) subglobose, sparsely puberulous.

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