Pourouma bolivarensis
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Description
Tree up to 15 m tall. Branchlets 3-7 mm thick, yellow- to whitish-appressed-puberulous. Stipules 2-8 cm long, caducous, yellowish-appressed-puberulous outside, glabrous inside; petiole 2-8 cm long; blade coriaceous, entire, elliptic to narrowly elliptic to obovate to narrowly obovate, 5-19 x 3-14.5 cm, apex short-acuminate to rounded, base acute to rounded, upper surface smooth, appressed-puberulous on the primary vein, lower surface yellow-appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, in areoles, white-arachnoid-tomentellous; secondary veins 5-9 pairs, basal pair branched. Staminate inflorescences unknown. Pistillate inflorescences branched; peduncle 3-7 cm long, yellowish-appressed-puberulous to subsericeous; flowers 7-12; pedicel 2-10 mm long; stigma discoid. Fruiting perianth ca. 1.8 cm long, sparsely appressed-puberulous; pedicel up to 2 cm long.