Guettarda viburnoides
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Guettarda viburnoides is a species of plant in the red family from Paraguay , Bolivia and Brazil .
description
Guettarda viburnoides grows as a shrub or a smaller, semi- evergreen tree to about 7–8 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches about 15-20 centimeters.
The simple, stalked and opposite leaves are soft and slightly leathery. The leaf stalk is up to 8 inches long. The leaves, which are mainly hairy on the underside, are ovate to obovate and have entire margins, up to 18 centimeters long and 9 centimeters wide. The small stipules fall off early.
Axillary and more or less finely hairy, dense, zymose and long-stemmed inflorescences are formed. The fine-haired inflorescence stalk is up to 7 centimeters long. The relatively large, fragrant, more or less finely silky hairy and five-fold, hermaphrodite, greenish-whitish or yellowish, (almost) sedentary flowers have a double flower envelope . The short flower cup is tubular with minimal calyx tips and teeth. The crown is fused in the shape of a salver, with a corolla tube up to 3.5–4.5 centimeters long, finely hairy on the inside and usually 5 smaller, up to 1 centimeter long, spreading, elongated and rounded lobes. There are usually 5 tightly enclosed stamens with very short stamens in the upper part of the long corolla tube. The multilocular ovary is inferior with a thick, long, cylindrical and slightly hairy pen with two columns, fleshy-capitate scar . There is a hairy disc .
There are small, light yellow, round and short-haired, mehrsamige, about 1.5-2.5 centimeter stone fruit with calyx remains at the top formed. The several elongated stone cores (pyrene) are very hard.
use
The fruits are edible.
The non-durable, relatively soft and medium-weight wood is only used for smaller applications.
literature
- Zefa Valdivina Pereira, Luiza Sumiko Kinoshita: Rubiaceae Juss. do Parque Estadual das Várzeas do Rio Ivinhema, MS, Brazil. In: Hoehnea. 40 (2), 2013, 205-251, 137 fig, doi: 10.1590 / S2236-89062013000200002 .
Web links
- Guettarda viburnoides at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Guettarda viburnoides at Árvores do Bioma Cerrado.
- Rubiaceae of the New World Guettarda at NYBG.