Pseudima frutescens Radlk.

Species

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Characteristics

calyces densely strigose without, glabrous within; sepals ovate, the outer to 3.5 mm long, the inner to 4.5 mm long; petals obovate, 3.5 mm long, rounded at the apex, thickened and nearly clawed at the base, sericeous without, sparsely long-pubescent within, especially midway; disc plate shaped, glabrous, the margin elevated with 5 lobes, these alternating with the petals; staminate flowers with the stamens 3.5 mm long, the filaments conspicuously long white-pubescent in the upper 2/3, glabrous below, the anther 1.5 mm long, oblong, the pistil ca. 0.4 mm long, lenticular, glabrous, the styles 2, thick, about as long as the ovary; pis-tillate flowers (Guyana) with the stamens ca. 2 mm long, the pistil 2.5 mm long, the ovary broadly ovate, 2-carpellate, ca. 1.5 mm long, glabrous except along the hispid upper margins, the style ca. 1 mm long, hispid, blunt at the apex. Capsules red, 2.2-2.7 cm long (including the stipe), prominently obcordate when both sections develop, or obovate with a small aborted lobe at the base, the lobes to 2 cm diam., the texture of the outer valve surface minutely warty, dull, drying brick red, the inner valve surface shiny, reddish brown; seeds obovoid, 1.5-1.8 cm long, black, shiny, minutely puncticulate, completely glabrous at the point of attach-ment.
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Unbranched shrubs or small trees 3-10 (15) m tall; bark light brown, smooth. Upper portion of stem furrowed to terete, with hollow pith (sometimes housing ants). Leaves even-pinnate, (simple and elongated in juvenile plants); petiole plus rachis 8-75 cm long; leaflets 10-20, alternate, chartaceous, glabrous, abaxially minutely papillate, oblong, lanceolate, elliptic or oblanceolate, 5-22(30) × 3-6.5(7.3) cm, the base acute to obtuse, the apex acuminate, the margins entire or crenulate. Thyrses panicle-shaped, 30-45 cm long, densely flowered; flowers in compound, pedunculate dichasia. Calyx greenish to light yellow, sericeous-tomentose, the sepals ovate, rounded at apex, ca. 3 mm long; petals yellowish, rhombate, ca. 3.3 mm long. sericeous-tomentose; disc cup-shaped, ca. 1 mm tall, glabrous or puberulent; filaments pubescent. Capsules red, glabrous, stipitate, of two subglobose cocci, one of which is usually smaller or rudimentary, pericarp 1.5-2 mm thick, cocci 1.5-2 cm long, splitting in half along the dorsal suture. Seeds nearly globose to obovoid, black, foveate, ca. 1.7 cm long, with a white, papery arillode on lower third.
Shrubs or trees 3-6 m tall; trunks slender, sometimes clustered; stems terete, weakly striate, densely appressed-puberulent. Leaves paripinnate, 30-70 cm long; petioles terete, 4-10 cm long; rachises terete, glabrous, the epidermis usu-ally with a 1-celled, grayish, sometimes exfoliating layer; petiolules 1-1.5 cm long, marginally ribbed above; leaflets 6-9 pairs, leaflets narrowly oblong to ob-long-oblanceolate, acute to gradually or bluntly acuminate at the apex, acute to attenuate and often inequilateral at the base, (5.5-)10-30(-40) cm long, (1.5-)4.5-7(-10) cain-wide, glabrous, the major lateral veins often arising from the midrib at an angle of 80-90?. Inflorescences terminal panicles, the branches densely strigose, the smaller ones drying angulate. Flowers white; pedicels and
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 7.5 - 9.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

An understorey tree in the Atlantic and coastal rainforests, preferring sandy soils with a shallow water table.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses charcoal medicinal wood
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Pseudima frutescens world distribution map, present in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, and Suriname

Conservation status

Pseudima frutescens threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:784499-1
WFO ID wfo-0001134912
COL ID 4NNGX
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 735006
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Synonyms

Pseudima costaricensis Sapindus surinamensis Cupania frutescens Pseudima frutescens Sapindus frutescens