Psychotria lucens Hiern

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Psychotria

Characteristics

Shrub or subshrub,? sometimes creeping, 0.3–1.5 m. tall, with glabrous stems.. Leaf-blades elliptic, narrowly oblong-elliptic or obovate-elliptic,, (7–)12–28 cm. long, 3–12 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous on both surfaces, drying brownish beneath, thin, with 6–16 pairs of lateral nerves; domatia and nodules absent; petioles 0.5–2.5 cm. long, glabrous; stipules ovate, 0.8–1.8 cm. long, glabrous, often bilobed at the apex, the lobes 2.5–6 mm. long, deciduous.. Flowers heterostylous, 4-merous in several-to much-branched panicles 2–20 cm. long; peduncle 0.5–10 cm. long, glabrous; secondary branches 0.5–1.6 cm. long; pedicels 0–3 mm. long, lengthening to 5 mm. in fruit; lower bracts ovate-triangular or narrowly triangular, up to 5 mm. long, glabrous, rest minute.. Calyx-tube obconical, 0.75–1 mm. long, glabrous; limb cupuliform, 0.5 mm. long, glabrous, truncate or the lobes very short.. Corolla white or greenish ochre, glabrous outside; tube 1.6–2 mm. long; lobes ovate, 1.5 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide, horned at the apex.. Stamens with filaments 1.5 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 0.5 mm. long or almost free in long-styled flowers.. Style 1 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 2 mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma-lobes 0.5–0.7 mm. long.. Drupes red, of 2 pyrenes, ellipsoid, ± 9 mm. long, ± 6 mm. wide, glabrous, not grooved; pyrenes semi-ellipsoid, 8.5 mm. long, 5.5 mm. wide, 3 mm. thick, the ventral face plane, the dorsal face 3-ribbed or slightly undulate.. Seeds slightly smaller, ventral face plane, but with a T-shaped median fissure, dorsal face 3-ribbed or slightly undulate; albumen not ruminate.
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 1.5
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

Psychotria lucens unspecified picture

Distribution

Psychotria lucens world distribution map, present in Central African Republic, Congo, Nigeria, and Uganda

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:762533-1
WFO ID wfo-0000286486
COL ID 4PPK4
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Synonyms

Psychotria lucens Uragoga lucens

Lower taxons

Psychotria lucens var. lucens