Blepharocalyx salicifolius
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Blepharocalyx salicifolius is a tree in the myrtle family from northern Argentina , Uruguay , Paraguay , Bolivia to Peru and Ecuador and from southern to central and eastern Brazil .
description
Blepharocalyx salicifolius grows as an evergreen tree with a spreading crown to over 20 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches about 40-50 centimeters.
The simple, short-stalked and bald to slightly hairy leaves are opposite. The short, bald to hairy, more or less flattened petiole is up to 1 centimeter long. The pointed to pointed, more rarely rounded leaves are entire, ovate, lanceolate to elliptical, lanceolate or obovate, lanceolate and up to 7 centimeters long and up to 2.5 centimeters wide. The veins are finely pinnate, with many weak, indistinct lateral veins.
The fragrant flowers appear on longer or shorter stalked and single-flowered or dichasial , more or less hairy inflorescences. The very small, four-fold and hermaphrodite flowers with a double flower envelope are white. The very small, mostly bald to slightly hairy sepals fall off early. The petals are up to 3 millimeters long and ciliate. There is a small, mostly bare flower cup and up to 100 protruding stamens on the edge of the flower cup. The most two-chamber ovary is almost bare (semi) under continuously with a long and slightly conical stylus with a smaller capitate scar . There is a bare discus .
Mostly multi-seeded, 5–8 millimeters large, dark purple colored, smooth fruits, berries with discus remains at the tip are formed. The up to 4 seeds are kidney-shaped and up to 5 millimeters long.
Taxonomy
The first description of Basionyms Myrtus salicifolia was made in 1823 by Karl Sigismund Kunth in Humboldt FWHvon, AJABonpland & CSKunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 108, t. 541. The division into the newly established genus Blepharocalyx to Blepharocalyx salicifolius took place in 1854 by Otto Karl Berg in Linnaea 27: 413. A myriad of synonyms are known.
use
The fruits should be edible. The leaves are used medicinally.
literature
- Harri Lorenzi: Árvores Brasileiras. Vol. 2, Instituto Plantarum, 1998, ISBN 85-86714-07-0 , p. 244, online at StuDocu.
- Cecilia Ballvé Alice and others: Plantas Medicinais De Uso Popular: Atlas Farmacognóstico. Ulbra, 1995, ISBN 85-85692-12-X , p. 56 ff.
Web links
- Blepharocalyx salicifolius at NYBG.
- Blepharocalyx salicifolius at Useful Tropical Plants.