Salacia elliptica
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( Mart. Ex Schult. ) G.Don |
Salacia elliptica is a tree in the spindle tree family from Bolivia , central to northern Brazil to Paraguay , Venezuela , Colombia to Central America and the Guyanas and Ecuador .
description
Salacia elliptica grows as an evergreen tree up to 10 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches about 40 centimeters.
The simple, opposite and short-stalked, thick leaves are glabrous and leathery. The short petiole is 1–1.5 centimeters long. The entire to slightly notched, egg-shaped to elliptical or obovate leaves are 6-14 inches long and 3.5-7 inches wide. At the top they are rounded to indented or pointed. The leaves are quite different in width in the different habitats, from quite narrow to wide.
The flowers appear in axillary clusters. The yellow to orange, stalked and five-fold, hermaphroditic flowers are double- coated . The flowers are about 10 millimeters in diameter. There are only 3 short stamens and a three-chambered, Upper permanent ovary with short style and a thick, fleshy discus present.
The first green, partly "frosted" and, when ripe, yellow, rounded and mostly smooth, multi-seeded, about 3–5 centimeters large, leathery berries are formed. The beige seeds are encased in a slimy aril .
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 28.
Taxonomy
The first description of Basionyms Anthodon ellipticus was made in 1822 by Josef August Schultes by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in JASchultes, Mant. 1: 348. The division into the genus Salacia to Salacia elliptica took place in 1831 by George Don junior in Gen. Hist. 1: 631. Many synonyms are known.
use
The fruits are edible.
literature
- K. Kubitzki : The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. VI: Flowering Plants Dicotyledons , Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-642-05714-4 , p. 60.
- Harri Lorenzi: Árvores Brasileiras. Vol. 2, Instituto Plantarum, 1998, ISBN 85-86714-07-0 , p. 108, online at StuDocu.
Web links
- Salacia elliptica at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Salacia elliptica at Flora of the Guianas.
- Salacia elliptica near Árvores do Bioma Cerrado.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Useful Tropical Plants.