Vitex masoniana Pittier

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Vitex

Characteristics

long and 3.5-6.5 cm wide, of 2-5 opposite pairs of long-stipitate, many-flowered cymes and a terminal cyme, furfuraceous-puberulent with brownish hairs through-out; peduncles 3.5-5.5 cm long, flattened; pedicels ca. 1 mm long or obsolete; foliaceous bracts often present, 3-foliolate, stipitate, to 3.5 cm long and 3 cm wide, the segments resembling ordinary leaflets but smaller; bractlets linear or oblong, 2-6 mm long; prophylls linear, 1-2 mm long; corolla blue to lavender or pale-purple, the central lobe of the lower lip usually purple, yellow in the throat, the other lobes lavender to even white; filaments white; anthers black. Flowers with the calyx campanulate, ca. 3 mm long, densely ochraceous-puberulent or fur-furaceous, resinous-glandular, very distinctly 5-lobed, the lobes narrowly lanceo-late, ca. 1 mm long, erect or recurved-spreading. Fruit globose, brown, 1.3-1.5 cm long and wide, densely brown-furfuraceous or puberulent; fruiting-calyx patelliform, irregularly split, to 1 cm wide, densely brown-puberulent.
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Tree, to 50 m tall, the trunk to 95 cm d.b.h.; branchlets stout and acutely tetragonal, mostly sulcate between the angles, densely furfuraceous-puberulent or short-pubescent with brownish hairs, somewhat lenticellate, glabrescent; twigs more densely brown-furfuraceous, often compressed. Leaves 3-5-foliolate, fully expanded at time of anthesis; leaflets subequal or the lowermost somewhat smaller, subcoriaceous, the central leaflet elliptic, 4.3-24.5 cm long and 1.8-10.3 cm wide, entire, apically acute or obtuse, often subrevolute along the margins, basally acute, light-green on both surfaces, glabrous and often subbullate-rugose above, densely short-pubescent beneath, the lateral leaflets similar but usually smaller, the vein reticulation usually impressed above and sharply prominent beneath, petioles 2-8.5 cm long, densely brown-furfuraceous; stout furfuraceous, margined petiolules 1-9 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate, 6.5-18.5 cm
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Distribution

Vitex masoniana world distribution map, present in Panama

Conservation status

Vitex masoniana threat status: Near Threatened

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:265976-2
WFO ID wfo-0000333260
COL ID 5BL8N
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Synonyms

Vitex masoniana