Meliosma donnellsmithii Urb.

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Sabiaceae > Meliosma

Characteristics

except for a few appressed trichomes along the midvein; petiole lacking or short and thick, 0.4-1 cm long, appressed puberulous. Inflorescence cauliflorous, open-ly paniculate, to 25 cm long, appressed puberulous, the flowers subsessile on the ultimate third or fourth order branches. Flowers with the sepal suborbicular, the apex rounded, ciliate, otherwise glabrous, 1 mm long and wide; outer petals broadly ovate, erose but not ciliate, ca. 1.5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, the interior petals narrow; fertile stamens 2, with linear filaments ca. 1 mm long, the anther thecae orbicular, ca. 0.2 mm long; ovary ovoid, glabrous, the apex contracted into the base of the style, the stigma briefly 2-lobed. Fruit obovoid-globose, 1.5-2 cm long and wide, glabrous.
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Small tree 3-8 m tall; branchlets not seen. Leaves large, oblanceolate, 30-54 cm long, 10-15 cm wide, abruptly short acuminate, tapering gradually toward the base, the extreme base auriculately rounded, entire to remotely and inconspic-uously serrate toward the apex, drying dark olive below, darker above, the main veins plane or somewhat impressed above, prominent below, the lateral veins 19-23 on a side, tertiary venation prominulous below, minutely punctate, glabrous
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Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Images

Leaf

Meliosma donnellsmithii leaf picture by SINAC Pérez Greivin (cc-by-sa)
Meliosma donnellsmithii leaf picture by SINAC Pérez Greivin (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Meliosma donnellsmithii fruit picture by SINAC Pérez Greivin (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Meliosma donnellsmithii world distribution map, present in Panama

Conservation status

Meliosma donnellsmithii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:156680-2
WFO ID wfo-0001133327
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Synonyms

Meliosma donnellsmithii