Licania arborea Seem.

only. Flowers essentially sessile, very many together in axillary and terminal panicles at the tips of branches, forming an inflorescence often up to 40-50 cm. long and nearly as broad, with widely divergent branches; petals white, hirsute, oblanceolate or obovate, often about 1.5-2 mm. long and half as wide, obtusely pointed at apex, cuneate at base; stamens about 20 (the anther-bearing ones 10 or fewer), the filaments up to about 3 mm. long, hirsute, their bases coherent into a cylinder and inserted with the calyx, the sterile ones often short and inconspic-uous; anthers about 0.5 mm. long; hypanthium deeply cup-shaped, about 1.5-2 mm. wide and high in anthesis, tomentose within, usually contracted toward apex and surmounted by the 5 erect or converging calyx-lobes which are triangular, acute, about 1-1.5 mm. wide and long; ovary sessile at the bottom of the hypan-thium, nearly globose, about 1 mm. long, hirsute; style about 2.5 mm. long, subulate, hirsute except for the distal 0.5 mm. which is slender, terete, and glabrous; stigma terminal, slightly flattened. Fruit (said by Seemann to be black) obovoid or oblong-obovoid, 2-3 cm. long or larger, rounded at tip, substipitate, glabrate.

Chiefly in dry brushy forest, at elevations of 1,300 metres or less. Low elevations, in dry or wet areas. It is common in savannahs and grasslands in dry areas of the Pacific in Panama, but rare or absent in the Caribbean rainforest.

Can be grown by seedlings.