Peritassa compta Miers

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Peritassa

Characteristics

Shrub or small tree or twiner. Petiole 4-12 mm long; blades chartaceous to coriaceous, light green but dark brown when dried, narrowly elliptic to oblong-obovate, 5-13 x 2.5-5(-9.5) cm, entire, rounded to emarginate at apex, base obtuse or acute and decurrent into the petiole; primary vein flattened to prominulous above, prominent beneath, secondary veins (7-)9-13 per side, flattened or inconspicuous above, prominulous beneath, tertiary veins hardly visible. Inflorescences axillary, few together, thyrsoid-paniculate, to 5 cm long, glabrous, peduncle 2-7 mm long; bracts and bracteoles less than 1 mm long, fimbriate, persistent; pedicels 0.4-0.6 mm long. Flowers to 2.5(-4) mm diam.; sepals brownish green, deltoid-ovate, 0.6-1 mm long and wide, slightly erosulous; petals pale, cream-yellow, spathulate, erect, 1.8-2.6 x 1-1.3 mm, margins narrow-scariose, fimbriate; disk ca. 0.5 mm high; filaments yellow, 0.6 mm long, anthers 0.3 mm long, thecae parallel, connective produced beyond the thecae; ovary subglobose, ca. 0.7 mm diam., style ca. 0.3 mm long. Fruits 3 cm long, to 4.5 cm diam., apple-like, blue, pericarp pruinose, 1-2 mm thick; seeds angled, 1.8 x 1.1 x 1.1 cm.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

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Distribution

Peritassa compta world distribution map, present in Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:162329-1
WFO ID wfo-0000394806
COL ID 4F59Q
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INPN ID 923404
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Synonyms

Peritassa compta Peritassa laevigata subsp. obtusa Salacia laevigata subsp. obtusa