The World Flora Online

Por Amy Pool

Carpotroche platyptera Pittier, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 178, t. 19. 1909; C. crassiramea Pittier; C. glaucescens Pittier.

Arbustos o árboles, siempreverdes, 2–10 m de alto, inermes; plantas monoicas. Hojas alternas, espiraladas, oblanceoladas, 20–50 cm de largo y 8–17 cm de ancho, ápice acuminado, base caudada, margen serrado, eglandular, cada diente apicalmente mucronado por la prolongación del nervio (raramente subentero), sin marcas pelúcidas, glándulas basales ausentes, pubescentes, pinnatinervias; estípulas hasta 2 cm de largo, caducas. Inflorescencia axilar estaminada de fascículos, con 1–5 flores pediceladas, sépalos 2, valvados, ovados, cóncavos, 5–6 mm de largo, pétalos 5–7, imbricados, oblongos, 4–8 mm de largo, blanquecinos, estambres 14–30, multiseriados, filamentos ca 0.3 mm de largo y fusionados en la base al receptáculo, glándulas del disco no observadas, sin ovario rudimentario; flores pistiladas solitarias, sépalos 2, como los de las flores estaminadas pero algo más grandes, pétalos 8, elíptico-obovados, 15 mm de largo, ovario súpero, con (6–) 8 (–10) costillas longitudinales, estilos 4 (5)-fidos, 2.5 mm de largo, estigmas lobados. Cápsula gruesa, elíptica a subglobosa, 3–6 cm de diámetro, tardíamente dehiscente, con 8 (10) alas leñosas y unduladas de 0.5–1.5 cm de ancho (a veces parcialmente laciniadas, quizás rasgándose en la madurez), cortamente tomentosa, roja; semillas numerosas, 8–10 mm de largo y 4–7 mm de ancho, seríceas a puberulentas, sin arilo.

Común en bosques muy húmedos, zona atlántica; 20–200 m; fl y fr todo el año; Moreno 23374, Riviere 341; Guatemala hasta Panamá, Colombia y Ecuador. No se observaron flores pistiladas y la descripción fue tomada de Pittier (1909) y Sleumer (1980). Género con 11 especies distribuido desde Guatemala hasta Panamá y en Sudamérica hasta Brasil.

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Shrub 1.50-2.40 m high, or small tree up to 6 m high, the trunk to ca 7.5 cm in diam, the young branchlets inconspicuously puberulous. Leaves on petioles to 5 cm long, thick, and inconspicuously puberulous; blade obovate to narrowly obovate, long-attenuate towards the base, obtuse at the base, acuminate at the apex, coarsely serrate to serrulate along the margins, to 50 cm long and 18 cm wide, chartaceous, inconspicuously puberulous mainly along the costa and lateral veins beneath, the costa very prominent and the lateral veins prominent below. Staminate flowers fasciculate in the leaf-axils (or on the trunk?), the pedicels short, puberulous; sepals 2, concave, to 6.5 mm long, puberulous outside, glabrous inside; petals 4 or more (5 or 6 in Panamanian material), oblong-elliptic to nar- rowly oblong-elliptic, the apex involute at least in bud, to 6.5 mm long and 1.7-2.7 mm wide, sparsely appressed-pilose in the middle especially outside; stamens co (21-26 counted in Panamanian material), the filaments ca 0.5 mm long, densely barbate, the anthers to 3.5 mm long, appressed-pilose. Pistillate flowers (not seen; description acc. to Pittier, loc. cit. 179), solitary, to 30 mm in diam; sepals as in staminate flowers but larger; petals 8, elliptic-obovate, more or less obtuse; ovary ovoid, longitudinally 8(-10)-ribbed, pilose, with 4(-5) placentas, the styles 4(-5), distinct, very short. Capsule ? globose, reddish or purplish, 2.5-4.5 cm long (wings in- cluded), ligneous, with 8-10 broad, vertical, undulate-margined wings, these 0.8-2 cm broad in the middle, rigid-chartaceous, inconspicuously puberulous; seeds ovoid, angulate, to 0.8 cm long.

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Arbusto o árbol, 1–10 m, monoico; estípulas hasta ca. 2 X 0.5 cm, deltadas o lanceoladas, caducas. Hojas alternas; pecíolo (2–)3–5 cm, engrosado hacia el ápice; lámina 10–60 X 3–18 cm, oblanceolada a obovada u obovado-elíptica, subentera a crenada o aserrada, glabra en el haz, puberulenta en el envés (esp. sobre los nervios principales), sin glándulas, sin puntos o líneas translúcidos, pinnadamente nervada. Infls. axilares, unisexuales, las masculinas cimosas, de pocas fls., las femeninas usualmente de 1 fl. solitaria. Fls. unisexuales, sin disco; sépalos 2, separados, imbricados; pétalos 4–6 (fls. estaminadas) u 8 (fls. pistiladas), blancos o crema, imbricados, 4–8 mm (fls. estaminadas) o hasta ca. 15 mm (fls. pistiladas); estambres (fls. estaminadas) 13–26, amarillos, insertos en el receptáculo, los filamentos separados, cortos; estaminodios (fls. pistiladas) ausentes; ovario súpero, provisto de 4–8 alas o bordes longitudinales; estilos 4 ó 5, connatos en la base; estigmas capitados o levemente lacerado-palmatífidos. Frs. capsulares, crema o verde pálido a rosado anaranjado o rojo anaranjado a café rojizo o rojo oscuro (a menudo con manchas más claras), 2.5–5(–7) cm, subglobosos, longitudinalmente alados, tardíamente dehiscentes por 3–5(–7) valvas; semillas numerosas, blancas, sin arilo (pero sumergidas en una pulpa amarillenta a anaranjada, carnosa).

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Shrub or small tree up to 6.0 m high, with few distally foliate, often simple branches; trunk up to 7.0 cm diam. Branchlets slender, furfuraceous. Leaves oblanceolate, obovate or obovate-elliptic, apex shortly cuspidate-acuminate, rarely obtuse, base long-cuneate-attenuate, very base more or less obtuse, chartaceous to rather coriaceous, glabrous above, laxly to subdensely and finely soft-hairy beneath, though glabrescent with age, or glabrous, more or less deeply and coarsely sinuate-dentate or -serrate particularly toward the apex of the lamina, 30.0-50.0(-65.0) cm long, 10.0-14.0(-20.0) cm broad, lateral nerves 10(-15) pairs rather straight from the midrib, looping before the margin, slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets rather coarse, slightly raised beneath; petiole swollen distally, (2.0-) 3.0-5.0 cm long; stipules triangular to lanceolate, up to 2.0 cm long and ca 0.5 cm broad, caducous. Flowers dioecious, the [male] fascicles and subsessile in the axils of the leaves, or on defoliate lower parts of the branchlets, or born at the base of the stem; pedicels pubescent, ca 4.0 mm long. Sepals 2, ovate, concave, puberulous outside, glabrous inside, 3.5-6.5 mm long, ca 5.0 mm wide. Petals 4-6, exterior ones oblong-elliptic, interior ones narrower, sparsely appressedly hairy on both sides, greenish-white, up to 6.5 mm long, 1.7-2.7 mm wide. Stamens 13-26; filaments hairy, ca 5.0 mm long; anthers appressed-pubescent, 2.5-3.5 mm long. Flowers [female] solitary and axillary. Sepals as in the [male] flowers, though somewhat larger. Petals 8, elliptic-obovate, ca 1.5 cm long. Ovary ovoid, vertically (6-)8- or 10-ribbed, densely short-hairy; styles 4 or 5, short; stigmas hardly widened at apex. Fruit subglobular, on peduncle ca 1.0 cm long, 3.5-4.0(-6.5) cm diam (or possibly larger) the wings included, reddish-purplish or creamish-greenish, sparsely pubescent, with (6-)8 or 10 rigidly chartaceous undulate-margined wings 0.8-2.0 cm broad in their middle; seeds (3-)l5-20, obovoid, flattened, up to 8.0 mm long.

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Shrub

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Guatemala to Panama, along the Atlantic coast, in forest.

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Guatemala to Panama, and again in Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Pichincha); both in coastal and lower montane wet forest, up to 900(-1100) m alt.

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