Terminalia quintalata

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Terminalia quintalata

Description

Shrub or tree 0.5-30 m. Leaves strongly coriaceous, obovate or sometimes oblong-obovate or narrowly so, to 4-22 x 2-11.5 cm, apex rounded or retuse or sometimes obtuse, base attenuate-cuneate, glabrous except sometimes sparsely pubescent on midvein below; domatia absent; venation brochidodromous, midvein stout, flattened and scarcely prominent, secondary veins 6-12 pairs, moderately spaced to distant, arising at widely acute to almost right angles, slightly curved to recurved, often forked and joining a well-marked intramarginal vein, scarcely or not prominent, intersecondary veins often present, often almost as evident as secondaries; tertiary veins inconspicuous, randomly reticulate; higher order veins indistinct; areolation imperfect or incomplete, not prominent; petiole 0.3-1.5 cm long, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, eglandular or biglandular at junction with leaf. Inflorescence 7-15(-18) cm long, simple, andromonoecious, sometimes bisexual and sometimes male flowers predominating, the males dispersed among the bisexuals; peduncle 4-7.5 cm long, glabrous to pubescent; rhachis 3-10(-12) cm long, glabrous to pubescent. Flowers (4- to) 5-merous, bisexual ones 5-10.5 x 3.5-5.5 mm, male ones 3-5 x 3.5-5.5 mm; lower hypanthium 2-6.5 mm long in bisexual flowers, pedicel-like and 1-3 mm long in male flowers, glabrous to densely appressed-pubescent,upper hypanthium campanulate to cupuliform, 1.5-3 mm, glabrous to appressed-pubescent outside, always densely pubescent inside; calyx lobes suberect to recurved, 0.8-1.8 mm long, glabrous to appressed-pubescent; stamens 3-6.5 mm long; disk villous to densely so; style 3.5-9.5 mm long, glabrous or very sparsely pubescent near base. Infructescence with numerous fruits, disposed along whole length of rhachis; fruit glabrous to sparsely pubescent, (0.6-)0.8-1.2(-1.5) x 0.5-1(-1.2) cm, actinomorphic, broadly elliptic in side view, apex and base rounded to truncate, wings (4-)5, flexible, equal, 0.2-0.6 cm wide, rounded laterally, body 0.2-0.35 cm wide.

Distribution

Guianas present, Guyana present, Headwaters of the Orinoco, Essequibo and Amazon rivers in Venezuela present, Southern America
Headwaters of the Orinoco, Essequibo and Amazon rivers in Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil; 13 specimens from the Guianas (GU: 13).

Common Name

English (Guyana): fukadi

Phenology

Flowering ; fruiting .