Goetzea elegans
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Goetzea elegans is a plant species from the genus Goetzea, which has only two species. It is endemic to Puerto Rico .
description
Goetzea elegans is an 8 to 10 m high tree that can reach a trunk diameter of 13 cm. The bark is smooth, the twigs are slender and hairy reddish, fine-felted. The leaves are ovate to elliptical and 2.5 to 12 mm long and 1.4 to 6 cm wide. Towards the front, the leaves are pointed to short-lobed, blunt or pointed. The base of the leaf blade is pointed to blunt. The top of the leaves is shiny. The leaves are covered with many parallel veins that protrude clearly on both sides. The veins in between are loosely reticulated, the veins are hairy on the underside. The petioles are hairy and 5 to 8 mm long.
The flowers are mostly single in the leaf axils on 6 to 12 mm long, hairy pedicels . The calyx is 5 to 6 mm long, finely felted and covered with narrow triangular, pointed and 1.5 mm long lobes. The orange-colored and hairy crown is funnel-shaped, 1.7 to 2 cm long and 1.5 mm in diameter. The coronet is studded with egg-shaped, rounded or pointed corolla lobes. The scar is bilobed.
The fruits are round or elliptical, orange colored berries with a length of 1.8 cm. They are hairy and contain 6 mm long seeds .
Occurrence
The species is endemic to and rare in Puerto Rico . It grows on damp limestone and in damp coastal formations.
literature
- Henri Alain Liogier : Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjancent Islands, Spermatophyta , Volume IV: Melastomataceae to Lentibulariaceae . Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1995, ISBN 0-8477-2337-2 .
