Salacia multiflora subsp. mucronata (Rusby) Mennega

Subspecies

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Characteristics

Leaves coriaceous, usually discolorous, often olivaceous or glaucous brown beneath when dried, obovate, 5-12 x 2-6.5 cm, apex shortly apiculate with callous mucro, or emarginate, base attenuate. Inflorescence glabrous, to 6 cm long, strictly dichotomously branched, branchlets not congested; pedicels articulate at 1-3.5 mm from base. Flowers 4-7 mm diam., solitary at end of ultimate branchlets; sepals 0.5-0.9 x 1-1.8 mm; petals green or cream, farinose-puberulent on both surfaces or without, 2.3-3.5 x 1.3-2.7 mm; disk 1.4-2 mm diam., 0.4-0.7 mm high, sometimes constricted halfway, the basal part yellowish, the upper part brownish; filaments 0.5-0.7 mm long, anthers ca. 0.2 x 0.3 mm; style ca. 0.2 mm long. Fruit ellipsoid, 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm, not furrowed, pericarp brown or orange, white-speckled, usually rugulose; seeds brown.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

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Distribution

Salacia multiflora subsp. mucronata world distribution map, present in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:967796-1
WFO ID wfo-0000435764
COL ID 5KZ2L
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INPN ID 740658
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Synonyms

Salacia mucronata Salacia multiflora subsp. mucronata