Pourouma bicolor Mart.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Urticaceae > Pourouma

Characteristics

Tree up to 15 m tall. Branchlets 3-13 mm thick, yellowish-to whitish-puberulous and with (rather) dense, brown, pluricellular hairs. Stipules 3-12(-15) cm long, caducous, white-puberulous to-subsericeous outside, densely hairy inside; petiole (2-)4-30(-46) cm long; blade subcoriaceous to chartaceous, entire, ovate to narrowly ovate to elliptic to narrowly elliptic and (6-)10-25 x (4.5-)6-10 cm or 3-lobed to 3-fid to 5-7-fid to-parted and 13-30(-42) x 13-30(-40) cm, apex acuminate (to obtuse), base (obtuse to) truncate to cordate, upper surface scabrous to scabridulous, sometimes smooth, lower surface on the main veins yellowish-appressed-puberulous, between the tertiary veins arachnoid-tomentellous; secondary veins (5-)12-25(-40) pairs, basal pair branched. Staminate inflorescences: peduncle 2.4-4 cm long; flowers solitary to loosely glomerate at the end of the branchlets, usually sessile; perianth 1-1.5 mm long; filaments shorter than the perianth. Pistillate inflorescences usually distinctly branched; peduncle 2-4 cm long; flowers (6-)10-ca. 50; pedicel 2-5 mm long; perianth 3-4 mm long; stigma discoid. Fruiting perianth ovoid to ellipsoid, ca. 1.5 cm long, scabrous; pedicel up to 0.8 cm long.
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A tree. It grows 25 m tall. The trunk has rings along it. There are stilt roots at the base. The leaves are large with wide lobes. The leaves are white on the underside. The leaf stalk is attached at the base. The leaf lobes are triangular. They are pointed at the tip. The flowers are small and reddish brown. The flowers are in clusters below the leaves. The fruit are large berries.
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Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 15.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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It is a tropical plant. It grows in lowland forests.
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

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Edible fruits
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Distribution

Pourouma bicolor world distribution map, present in Austria, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Pourouma bicolor threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:856077-1
WFO ID wfo-0000394906
COL ID 4M76G
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INPN ID 732886
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Synonyms

Pourouma bicolor Pourouma schultesii Pourouma aspera Pourouma crassivenosa Pourouma lawrancei Pourouma bicolor subsp. bicolor Pourouma camaratana

Lower taxons

Pourouma bicolor subsp. scobina Pourouma bicolor subsp. digitata Pourouma bicolor subsp. tessmannii Pourouma bicolor subsp. chocoana