Sloanea caribaea
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Sloanea caribaea is a tree in the Elaeocarpaceae family from northern Brazil , Venezuela, and Colombia to the Lesser Antilles . The species is very long-lived and is over 1000 years old.
description
Sloanea caribaea grows as a very large tree to over 52 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches up to 2–4.9 meters. Sometimes high and wide buttress roots are formed. The relatively smooth bark is brown-gray.
The simple, short-stalked and mostly alternate leaves are slightly leathery. The runny petiole is up to 1–2 centimeters long, the ovate or elliptical to obovate, almost bare, entire leaves are 4–11 centimeters long and 2.5–6.5 centimeters wide. At the top they are rounded, rounded to pointed. There are mostly sloping, small stipules present.
Terminal or axillary, small and slightly hairy, long-stemmed panicles are formed. The small, short-stalked, creamy white and fragrant flowers have a simple perimeter , the petals are missing. There are sloping, minimal supporting and pre-leaves . There are 4 flabby, downy hairy, egg-shaped and about 4-5 millimeters long, thick sepals present. There are many, short stamens with finely haired, short stamens and large anthers with a short, pointed appendage ( awn ). The four-chambered, upper permanent ovary is hairy, fine-haired with a short, in the lower part, conical stylus . There is a discus .
Four-part, brown and round, fine blackish, about 2 centimeters large capsule fruits with thick, leathery flaps and sometimes with a few small spines are formed. They usually contain one or two, egg-shaped to ellipsoidal, 11-15 millimeter large seeds that are almost completely covered by a fleshy, orange to red, slightly lobed arillode or a sarcotesta .
Taxonomy
The first description was in 1896 (publ. 1897) by Antoine Duss in Annales de l'Institut Colonial de Marseille 90, after Carl Wilhelm Leopold Krug and Ignaz Urban. Sloanea larensis Steyerm is a synonym .
literature
- Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. CLXXV, 1954, pp. 39, 76, 78, online at biodiversitylibrary.org.
- K. Kubitzki : The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. VI: Flowering Plants Dicotyledons , Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-642-05714-4 (Reprint), p. 139 f.
- I. Urban: Symbolae Antillanae, seu, Fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis. Vol. 1, 1898-1900, pp. 360 f, online at biodiversitylibrary.org.
Web links
- Elaeocarpaceae (Rollet, Antilles) at PROTA.
- Sloanea caribaea near Plants of Saint Lucia (pictures).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sloanea caribaea at Monumental Trees.
- ↑ online at biodiversitylibrary.org.