Saccellium brasiliense
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Saccellium brasiliense ( Syn. Cordia brasiliensis (IMJohnst.) Gottschling & JSMill. ) Is a tree in the predatory leaf family from central to western Brazil .
description
Saccellium brasiliense grows as a smaller, semi- evergreen tree up to about 12 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches about 40-60 centimeters. The gray-brown bark is furrowed.
The simple, short-stalked leaves are alternate. The short, somewhat bristly petiole is up to 8 millimeters long. The paper-like leaves are (narrow) ovate to obovate or elliptical, lanceolate, they are 5–10 centimeters long and 1.5–4.5 centimeters wide. They are completely or slightly cupped at the edge to the front part sawn or serrated and at the tip pointed, pointed to pointed or more rarely rounded. The leaves are somewhat hairy above and below.
Terminal or axillary panicles up to 10 centimeters long are formed. The hermaphrodite, small and whitish flowers are five-fold with a double flower envelope . The small, cup-shaped, five-lobed calyx is bristly. There are five stamens and a top constant ovary with short, zweiästigem pen available.
There are blackish, obovate, about 7-8 millimeters long drupes with a persistent style, in the persistent, somewhat inflated, about 2-2.5 centimeters long, egg-shaped calyx formed.
literature
- Harri Lorenzi: Árvores Brasileiras. Vol. 2, Instituto Plantarum, 1998, ISBN 85-86714-07-0 , p. 55, online at StuDocu.
- Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. Vol. XVI, 1935, p. 181, online at biodiversitylibrary.org.
- Flora of Peru. Field Museum of Natural History, Vol. XIII, Part 2, No. 2, 1960, p. 591, online at biodiversitylibrary.org.