Peritassa laevigata
Description
Liana or scandent shrub (or tree?). Petiole 7-18(-25) mm long; blades chartaceous to coriaceous, sometimes discolorous, greyish green beneath, elliptic to oblong-obovate, 7-21 x 4-9.5 cm, margins entire, undulate or remotely serrate, apex acuminate, undulate or distinctly cuspidate with a callose, to 1 cm long tip, base acute, obtuse to truncate; primary vein prominulous above, prominent beneath, secondary veins 5-11 per side, nearly flattened to slightly impressed above, prominulous beneath and sometimes yellowish. Inflorescences axillary, thyrsoid-paniculate, to 8 cm long, glabrous, loosely branched almost from the base or peduncle to 1.5 cm long; bracts and bracteoles acute, fimbriate, spreading, persistent; pedicels to 3.5 mm long. Flowers 2.5-4 mm diam.; sepals broadly ovate to deltoid, unequal, 0.5-0.7 x 0.8-1.5 mm, slightly erosulous; petals creamish white to yellow, suberect, obovate-oblong, 1.5-3 x 1-1.5 mm, margins scariose, more or less strongly erosulous; disk 0.3-0.6 mm high; filaments 0.6-1.3 mm long, anthers 0.3-0.5 mm long, thecae parallel, connective distinctly produced beyond the thecae; ovary subglobose, to 1.2 mm diam., style 0.2-0.3 mm long. Infructescence branches and pedicels greatly swollen. Fruit subglobose, to 5 cm diam., pericarp 1-3 mm thick, pruinose and blue in dried collections; seeds 2.8 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm.
Distribution
E and C Brazil present, Guianas present present, Southern America: Colombia (Colombia present); Peru (Peru present); Venezuela (Venezuela present), Tobago present
Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Peru, E and C Brazil; 56 collections studied, 9 from the Guianas (GU: 3; FG: 1; SU: 5).