Neea spruceana
Content
- <<<Female perianth>Style>Stigma>Division number
- <<<Habit>Juvenile branches>Hairs>Colour
- <<<Leaves>Blade>Apex>Shape
- <<<Leaves>Blade>Base>Colour
- <<<Leaves>Blade>Base>Hairs
- <<<Leaves>Blade>Base>Shape
- <<<Male perianth>Stamens>Anthers>Length
- <<<Male perianth>Stamens>Long stamens>Length
- <<<Male perianth>Stamens>Short stamens>Length
- <<Anthocarps>Perianth>Length
- <<Female perianth>Limbs>Lobe number
- <<Female perianth>Lobes>Length
- <<Female perianth>Staminodes>Length
- <<Female perianth>Staminodes>Staminode number
- <<Female perianth>Style>Colour
- <<Female perianth>Style>Relative distance
- <<Female perianth>Style>Stigma
- <<Habit>Juvenile branches>Hairs
- <<Habit>Trunk>Diameter
- <<Inflorescences>Bracteoles>Bracteole number
- <<Inflorescences>Bracteoles>Length
- <<Inflorescences>Bracteoles>Shape
- <<Inflorescences>Peduncle>Length
- <<Leaves>Blade>Apex
- <<Leaves>Blade>Base
- <<Leaves>Blade>Dimensions
- <<Leaves>Blade>Shape
- <<Leaves>Blade>Texture
- <<Leaves>Petiole>Length
- <<Male perianth>Stamens>Anthers
- <<Male perianth>Stamens>Long stamens
- <<Male perianth>Stamens>Short stamens
- <<Male perianth>Stamens>Stamen number
- <Anthocarps>Colour
- <Anthocarps>Dimensions
- <Anthocarps>Perianth
- <Anthocarps>Shape
- <Female perianth>Colour
- <Female perianth>Dimensions
- <Female perianth>Limbs
- <Female perianth>Lobes
- <Female perianth>Shape
- <Female perianth>Staminodes
- <Female perianth>Style
- <Habit>Height
- <Habit>Juvenile branches
- <Habit>Trunk
- <Inflorescences>Bracteoles
- <Inflorescences>Flower number
- <Inflorescences>Flowers
- <Inflorescences>Growth form
- <Inflorescences>Hairs
- <Inflorescences>Peduncle
- <Inflorescences>Position
- <Leaves>Blade
- <Leaves>Leaf number per whorl
- <Leaves>Petiole
- <Male perianth>Colour
- <Male perianth>Dimensions
- <Male perianth>Hairs
- <Male perianth>Length
- <Male perianth>Shape
- <Male perianth>Stamens
- <Male perianth>Teeth number
- Anthocarps
- Description
- Distribution
- Female perianth
- Habit
- Individuals Association
- Inflorescences
- Leaves
- Male perianth
<<Leaves>Blade>Shape
usually elliptical or oblong, sometimes ovate or oblanceolate27
27. 002-003-002
<Female perianth>Colour
green, rose or reddish-purple, minutely rufous-puberulent outside, greenish-white inside38
38. 005-001
<Inflorescences>Hairs
peduncle and axes very sparsely and thinly spreading-rufous-puberulent;52
52. 003-004
Description
Shrub or tree 1-16 m; trunk to ca. 20 cm diam; young branches often sparsely rufous-puberulent. Leaves opposite or subopposite, those of a pair often unequal in size, sometimes verticillate in whorls of 3 or 4; subsessile to petiolate, petiole 4-15 mm; blade membranaceous or subcoriaceous, usually elliptical or oblong, sometimes ovate or oblanceolate, 7-16.5 (-19.5) x 2-6 cm, apex abruptly or gradually acuminate or long-acuminate, base acute to attenuate, often oblique, glabrous, often drying dark brown. Inflorescence a axillary or terminal, erect, few- to many-flowered, lax, corymbose panicle; peduncle and axes very sparsely and thinly spreading-rufous-puberulent; peduncle 3-6.8 cm long; bracteoles at base of flower 3, triangular-lanceolate, to 0.75-1 mm long; flowers subsessile. Male perianth yellow or yellowish-green, glabrous or with ciliate teeth, urceolate, sometimes infundibuliform or tubular-ellipsoid, 2.4-6(-7.5) x 1-3 mm, 5-toothed, teeth to ca. 2 mm long; stamens 5-6, short ones 2-3.5 mm, long ones 4.5-5 mm long, anthers 0.8-1 mm long. Female perianth green, rose or reddish-purple, minutely rufous-puberulent outside, greenish-white inside, suburceolate, campanulate or infundibuliform, 3 x 1.5-2 mm, limb flared, 5-lobed, lobes to 1 mm long; staminodes 6, ca. 1 mm long; style black, exserted ca. 1.5 mm above perianth, stigma fimbriate into ca. 20 divisions. Anthocarp yellowish-green or maroon-purple, narrowly ellipsoid or oblongoid, ca. 10 x 4 mm, apically crowned by persistent 1 mm long perianth.
Distribution
Amazonian Brazil present, French Guiana present, Guianas present, Guyana present, Southern America: Bolivia (Bolivia present); Colombia (Colombia present); Ecuador (Ecuador present); Peru (Peru present); Venezuela (Venezuela present)
Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Amazonian Brazil; Guyana and French Guiana; 46 collections studied, all from the Guianas (GU: 43; FG: 3).
Individuals Association
Mt. Bellevue de l'Inini, de Granville 7955
Plage de Montjoly, Sauvain 4
Guyana, Puruni, Ule FD 7714
Leaves
Leaves opposite or subopposite, those of a pair often unequal in size, sometimes verticillate in whorls of ;69
69. 002