Antidaphne viscoidea
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Description
Plants to ca. 1.5 m in diam.Stems slightly ridged, becoming terete; epicortical roots present at least when young, brownish, bearing conspicuous secondary haustoria; primary haustorium becoming large, often fusing with adjacent secondary haustoria in age. Leaves sessile or with short, indistinct petiole; blade mostly obovate with rounded apex. Male inflorescence a racemose catkin with caducous scales, terminal leaves absent. Female inflorescence spicate, flowers with semi-inferior ovary, tip of inflorescence with minute leaves which may later expand and become foliaceous; style short, stigma capitate to cristate; female inflorescence usually elongating after anthesis. Fruit grey-green to whitish or yellowish, ca. 0.4 cm long.
Distribution
Andes of northern Bolivia present, Cuyuni-Mazaruni Region present, Guianas present, Guyana present, Northern America: Mexico Southwest (Oaxaca present), northern and eastern Venezuela present
Mexico (Oaxaca) to the Andes of northern Bolivia, northern and eastern Venezuela. In the Guianas known from a single collection from the Cuyuni-Mazaruni Region of Guyana (Pipoly et al. 10686 (LEA, NY)). The plant is very inconspicuous, however, and should be looked for elsewhere (GU: 1).