Gyranthera caribensis
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Gyranthera caribensis is a tree in the mallow family from the woolen subfamily from Venezuela . In Venezuela it is also known as Cucharón , Candelo or Niño .
description
Gyranthera caribensis grows as a very large, deciduous tree up to 50–63 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches over 5.4 meters. High and wide buttress roots are formed.
The alternate and long-stemmed leaves are hand-shaped with up to 3–7 short-stalked leaflets . The obovate to elliptical, about 11-22 centimeters long leaflets have entire margins and acuminate to acuminate. The veins are pinnate with curved side veins.
Terminal and unilateral panicles ( coils ) are formed. The very large flowers are 20-30 centimeters long and cream-colored. The long, tubular and leathery, brownish chalice has two or three short, sometimes two-pointed tips. There are 5 large and long petals. The 5 protruding stamens are fused in the lower part in a long, ribbed to round tube, with fringed-filamentous staminodes (sterile appendages) at the tip. Above the tube, the thick stamens are free, with 5 large, septate and awned anthers twisted spirally into each other . The fünfkammerige ovary is upper constant, very long with a thread-like stylus with multipart scar .
It becomes 25-30 centimeters long, leathery-woody and loculicidal, ellipsoidal, slightly spindle-shaped and one-chamber, thick-skinned, five-part and slightly ribbed capsule fruits with 8-12 large, 12-15 centimeters long and one-sided, red-brown seeds with thick wings educated.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1921 by Henri Pittier in Boletín Comercial e Industrial Venezuela 13: 417–433 in Contribuciones para la Flora de Venezuela 1921: 18.
literature
- I. Roth, H. Lindorf: South American Medicinal Plants. Springer, 2002, ISBN 978-3-642-07544-5 , p. 134.
- Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Vol. 16 (8), 1926, pp. 208 f, 211, Fig. 1, 2, online at biodiversitylibrary.org.
- K. Kubitzki , C. Bayer: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. V: Flowering Plants Dicotyledons , Springer, 2003, ISBN 3-540-42873-9 , pp. 271, 274 f.
- Thomas W. Baumann: Tropical fruit. Villacoffea, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9523293-2-0 , p. 64 f.
Web links
- Herbarium species (leaves, fruit valve and seeds) at Plant Identification Tools, The Field Museum.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gyranthera caribensis from Monumental Trees, accessed on November 23, 2019.