Protium costaricense Engl.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Burseraceae > Protium

Characteristics

Trees, 4-8 m high; branchlets densely brownish-hirtellous and minutely puberulent, marked with light lenticels. Leaves odd-pinnate, 13-44 cm long, 10.5-24 cm wide; petioles canaliculate, 2.5-6.5 cm long, they and rachises densely brownish-hirtellous and minutely puberulent; leaflets (3-) 5-7 (-9), elliptic, oblong, ovate, or obovate, slightly inequilateral, abruptly acuminate, cune-ate basally, subcoriaceous, margins entire, brownish-hirtellous and minutely puberulent, especially on the veins, becoming glabrate between the veins, the laterals 6-14 cm long and 2.5-6 cm wide, the terminals 8.5-11.5 cm long and 3.5-5.5 cm wide, the lowermost pair smallest; petiolules slightly swollen apically, densely brownish-hirtellous and minutely puberulent, the laterals 5-10 mm long, the terminals 18-26 mm long. Inflorescences axillary panicles, few-branched from the base, densely brownish-hirtellous and minutely puberulent, becoming glabrate, 1-5 cm long. Flowers yellow, 4-merous; pedicels sparsely puberulent, 1.5-2 mm long, calyx cupuliform, 1 mm high, 4-lobed, the lobes broadly triangular, acuminate, a little shorter than the tube, sparsely puberulent; petals 4 oblong-triangular, the upper half spreading, sparsely puberulent on both surfaces, the margins papillose, inflexed apiculate apically, 3 mm long and 1.5 mm wide; stamens 8, 2 mm high in carpellate flowers, the filaments subulate, dilated
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basally; disc 8-lobed, annular, glabrous, less than 1 mm high, surrounding the base of the ovary; ovary ovoid, pubescent, tapering into the style, 1.5 mm high in carpellate flowers, the style persistent in fruit, the stigma 4-lobed. Fruits obliquely ovoid, acute, stipitate, puberulent to almost glabrate, the exocarp red, spotted with lighter lenticels, 13-16 mm long and 11-12 mm in diameter; pyrenes 1, white.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

Leaf

Protium costaricense leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Protium costaricense world distribution map, present in Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama

Conservation status

Protium costaricense threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:210517-2
WFO ID wfo-0000397095
COL ID 77Z3Y
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Synonyms

Protium salvozae Protium costaricense Icica costaricensis