Mollinedia costaricensis Donn.Sm.

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Monimiaceae > Mollinedia

Characteristics

Dioecious shrubs or small trees to 7 m. high, the branchlets pubescent with grayish hairs. Leaves pergameneous, appressed-strigillose, especially below, rarely glabrescent, narrowly to broadly ovate or obovate, apically obtuse to shortly acumi-nate, basally acute to rounded, 8-18 cm. long, 4-9 cm. broad, subentire or with up to 25 minute irregular teeth on either side, the secondary veins 5-11 on either side, arcuately anastomosing 3-8 mm. from the margin; petioles 5-16 mm. long, drying rufous, puberulent. Staminate inflorescences 1-6 in 3-to 5-flowered cymes in each axil, the bracteate peduncles and pedicels with yellowish puberulence; peduncles 1-20 mm. long, the pedicels 2-5 mm. long. Flowers campanulate, 6-8 mm. in diameter at anthesis; tepals 4, exteriorly with a yellowish puberulence, the inner 2 with an apical laciniate appendage; stamens 16-34, ca. 1 mm. long, the anthers hippocrepiform. Carpellate flowers mostly solitary or paired in the axils, the bracteate peduncles 5-20 mm. long, the bracteolate pedicels to as much as 6 cm. long; flowers turbinate, 2-4 mm. in diameter, the tepals ca. 2 mm. long, caducous, the numerous carpels ellipsoid, with a grayish or yellowish pubescence. Fruiting receptacles discoid, repand, densely strigillose on both surfaces, 10-15 cm. broad; fruits ellipsoid, numerous, brown, corrugated, usually puberulent, 8-13 mm. long, 5-8 mm. broad, the seeds slightly smaller.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Images

Leaf

Mollinedia costaricensis leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Mollinedia costaricensis leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Mollinedia costaricensis leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Flower

Mollinedia costaricensis flower picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Mollinedia costaricensis flower picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Fruit

Mollinedia costaricensis fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Mollinedia costaricensis fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Mollinedia costaricensis fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Mollinedia costaricensis world distribution map, present in Costa Rica and Panama

Conservation status

Mollinedia costaricensis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:163083-2
WFO ID wfo-0000447973
COL ID 43VXD
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Synonyms

Mollinedia costaricensis