Cariniana legalis
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Cariniana legalis is a tree in the potted tree family from eastern Brazil .
description
Cariniana legalis grows as a semi-evergreen tree 30–40 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches up to 1.4-3.5 meters. There are Wurzelanäufe or smaller buttress roots trained. The brown-gray bark is thick and furrowed.
The simple, slightly leathery, alternate leaves are short-stalked and elliptical, oblong to obovate. They are completely to finely sawn or notched at the edge and pointed to pointed at the tip. The leaf margin is bent at the leaf base. The short, winged in the upper part of the petiole is 3–5 millimeters long and the blade is 3.5–7.5 inches long and 2–3.5 inches wide.
Terminal or almost terminal, slightly hairy small clusters or somewhat larger panicles are formed. The very small, greenish to white 5–6-fold, hermaphrodite and fragrant flowers are short-stalked and with a double flower envelope . The sepals, which are somewhat fine-haired on the outside, are up to 3 millimeters long and are fused with indistinct, rounded lobes. The somewhat larger petals are obovate and rounded to truncated. There are many (50), mostly at the tip in a white, cup-shaped structure that is only slightly overgrown on one side or free, reddish stamens in the middle. The ovary is dreikammerig with very short pencil .
Rough and woody, 4.5–6.5 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, oblong-cylindrical to slightly conical and many-seeded, thick-skinned, hard, dark brown capsule fruits (pyxidium) with a round, slightly convex and 1–1 , 5 cm wide lid (operculum) formed with adherent, woody columella. The many (8–16), flat and red-brown seeds are winged on one side and with wings about 1.5–3 inches long and 6-7.5 millimeters wide.
Taxonomy
The first description of the Basionyms Couratari legalis was carried out in 1837 by Carl Frederick Philip of Martius in Flora 20 (2) (Beibl.) 88. The re-allocation to the genus Cariniana carried out in 1898 by Otto Kuntze in Revis. Gene. Pl. 3 (2): 89. Another synonym is Cariniana brasiliensis Casar.
use
The medium-weight wood is in demand, but it is only moderately resistant. It is known as Jequitibá or Albarco , Abarco .
literature
- K. Kubitzki : The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. VI: Flowering Plants Dicotyledons , Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-642-05714-4 (Reprint), p. 227 f.
- M. Chudnoff: Tropical Timbers of the World. Agriculture Handbook 607, USDA, 1984, p. 43, limited preview in Google book search.
- J. Gérard, D. Guibal, S. Paradis, J.-C. Cerre: Tropical Timber Atlas. Éditions Quæ, 2017, ISBN 978-2-7592-2798-3 , p. 444, limited preview in Google Book Search.
- Silvestre Silva: Árvores Nativas do Brasil. Volume 1, Editora Europa, 2013, ISBN 978-85-7960-188-0 , pp. 80-83.
- Carlos Toledo Rizzini: Árvores e madeiras úteis do Brasil. 2ª Edição, 8ª Reimpressão, Blucher, 2019, ISBN 978-85-212-0051-2 , p. 82 ff.
- R. de Tasso Moreira Ribeiro, M. Gallao, RM da Silva: Morfologia de frutos e sementes de Cariniana legalis (Mart.) Kuntze (Lecythidaceae). In: ScientaAmazonia. 4 (2), 2015, pp. 66–69, online at researchgate.net.
Web links
- Cariniana legalis at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Cariniana legalis at NYBG (pictures at Scientific Name).