Ouratea patelliformis Dwyer

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Ochnaceae > Ouratea

Characteristics

Trees up to 6 m; branches terete, smooth, glabrous. Leaves well-spaced, with the petioles up to 0.8 cm long, somewhat thickened; blades narrowly elliptic, 15-20 cm long, 5-7 cm wide, cuneate toward the apex, acuminate and ultimately acute, obtuse or subcuneate at the base, thin-coriaceous, lustrous, smooth, glabrous, with the costa prominulous above, often plane toward the petiole, somewhat prominent beneath, the lateral veins ca 20, somewhat evanescent, widely arcuate, often the basal ones more sharply ascending, with the margins doubly serrate above the middle, or occasionally along the whole length, with the longer tooth more patu-lous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, narrowly racemiform-paniculate, 11-18 cm long, the rachises slender, rubescent, ca 2 mm wide, twisted and plano-com-pressed, the branches few, 0.4-4.5 cm long, the bostryces solitary or paired, the lower and middle ones 3-5-flowered, the articulation-stalks up to 0.3 cm long, the pedicels ca 7 mm long. Flowers not seen. Fruits with the receptacle patelli-form, ca 4 mm long, 6-10 mm wide, the scars of the druplets centrally located on the upper side of the torus, circular, ca 2 mm wide, obviously depressed.
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Distribution

Ouratea patelliformis world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:177605-2
WFO ID wfo-0001087100
COL ID 4B982
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Synonyms

Ouratea patelliformis