Salacia cordata

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Salacia cordata

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Description

Tree or liana characterized by large, coriaceous leaves, a congested, many times branched, paniculate inflorescence with minute reddish flowers, petals tuberculate within, the conical disk produced into 3 teeth at the topand rounded fruits, ca. 5 cm diam.with light brown, smooth pericarp.

Distribution

Northern America, Southern America: Costa Rica (Costa Rica present); Panamá (Panamá present); Peru (Peru present); Venezuela (Venezuela present)

Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil.

Notes

S. cordata is included, because some sterile collections suggest that the species occurs in the Guianas, e.g. two Suriname collections, viz. a fruiting liana from the top of Brownsberg (BW 6496 = Stahel & Gonggrijp 24) and a young tree from Wayombo (Lindeman 6350).
They might belong to the species. Fertile collections, however, are needed to be certain of its occurrence in the Guianas.