Protium pittieri Engl.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Burseraceae > Protium

Characteristics

canaliculate above, yellowish-woolly when young, becoming minutely puberulent, 7.5-17.5 cm long; leaflets 3-7, obovate, ovate, or lanceolate to elliptic, abruptly short-acuminate, the laterals inequilateral basally, subcoriaceous, the margins un-dulate, yellowish-woolly, becoming glabrate, the midribs becoming minutely pu-berulent above and beneath, the laterals 16-22 cm long and 7-9.5 cm wide, the terminals 16-23 cm long and 8-13 cm wide; petiolules canaliculate, thickened apically, yellowish-woolly when young, becoming minutely puberulent, the later-als 12-18 mm long, the terminals 38-62 mm long. Inflorescences axillary pani-cles, branched from the base, yellowish-woolly, becoming appressed-pubescent, 1-7 cm long in bud, to 9.5 cm long in fruit. Flowers yellow, 4-merous; pedicels yel-lowish-woolly, ca. 1 mm long; calyx yellowish-wooly, 4-lobed, the lobes triangular, acute; petals 4, yellowish-woolly. Fruits oblong, more or less acute apically, stipi-tate, sparsely appressed-pubescent, brown, with abundant yellowish lenticels, the mesocarp thick, white, 3-4 cm long and 1.5-3 cm in diameter, dehiscing by 2-4 valves; pyrenes 1-2, brownish.
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A shrub or tree. It grows up to 8 m high. The leaves have an odd number of leaflets. The leaves are 35-48 cm long. The flowers are in panicles in the axils of leaves. Flowers are yellow. The fruit are oblong and 3-4 cm long by 2-3 cm wide.
Trees or shrubs, to 8 m high; branchlets striate, yellowish-woolly when young, becoming almost glabrate. Leaves odd-pinnate, 35-48 cm long; petioles striate,
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Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 8.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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It is a tropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Edible fruits
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Images

Leaf

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

Flower

Protium pittieri flower picture by SINAC Pérez Greivin (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Protium pittieri fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Protium pittieri world distribution map, present in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama

Conservation status

Protium pittieri threat status: Vulnerable

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:210615-2
WFO ID wfo-0001218953
COL ID 4N4HY
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Protium pittieri Tetragastris tomentosa Icica pittieri