Peritassa huanucana (Loes.) A.C.Sm.

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Peritassa

Characteristics

Liana, low shrub or small tree; branchlets slender, brown-lenticellate, minutely puberulent, glabrescent. Petiole 4-8 mm long; blades chartaceous to thin-coriaceous, brownish when dried (somewhat paler beneath), elliptic or somewhat obovate, 8-20 x 3.5-7 cm, margins entire or undulate, apex acuminate (acumen 6-16 mm long), base cuneate or obtuse; primary vein prominent on both sides, secondary veins 7-9 per side, the basal pair sharply ascending, the others more arcuately so, flattened or prominulous above, prominent or prominulous beneath, tertiary veins inconspicuous above. Inflorescence ca. 2 cm long, puberulous or papillose, dichotomously branched; peduncle ca. 0.5 cm long; bracts to 1 mm long, erosulous; pedicels ca. 1 mm long. Flowers 1.5 mm diam.; sepals deltoid, to 1.1 mm long and wide, pubescent without, ciliolate or erosulous; petals yellowish green, reflexed, slightly longer than the sepals, oblong, 1.2-2 x 0.6-0.8 mm, rounded and entire or erosulous at apex, minutely hairy; disk ca. 0.5 mm high; filaments thin, 0.6-0.8 mm long, anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, thecae subparallel, connective not produced beyond the thecae; ovary ovoid, 0.5 mm diam., style 0.3 mm long. Infructescence to 8 cm long, glabrescent. Fruit ovoid to ellipsoid, sometimes globose, to 4.5 x 3 x 3 cm (Jacquemin 2031), pericarp 1-3 mm thick, maturing from green or whitish green to yellow or bright orange, bluish or white-pruinose when dried; seeds angled, 15 x 8 x 5 mm.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Peritassa huanucana world distribution map, present in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:190397-2
WFO ID wfo-0000394773
COL ID 4F59Y
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INPN ID 733423
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Synonyms

Peritassa huanucana Hippocratea huanucana