Bagassa guianensis

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Bagassa guianensis

Description

Tree up to 45 m tall. Branchlets minutely puberulous, (when juvenile scabrous). Stipules 0.5-1.5(-2) cm long, puberulous; petiole 3-10(-14) cm long; blade chartaceous to subcoriaceous, cordiform to broadly ovate to suborbicular, 6-30 x 4-23 cm, entire to 3-lobed (when juvenile to 3-parted), apex short-acuminate to acute, (when juvenile to serrate); smooth and puberulous on the main vein above, densely minutely puberulous beneath (when juvenile scabrous to scabridulous above and beneath), veins prominent beneath. Staminate inflorescences 4-13 cm long, including the 1-2 cm long peduncle. Pistillate inflorescences 1-1.5 cm in diam.; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm long. Infructescences 2.5-3.5 cm in diam.

Distribution

Guianas present, Southern America: Brazil North (Pará present); Brazil Northeast (Maranhao present), northern Mato Grosso present
The Guianas and Brazil (Para, Maranhao, and northern Mato Grosso).

Habitat

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Common Name

English: bacasse, bagasse, bakassa, bakasse, cow wood, kaw-oedoe, odon, odou, odoun, yawahedan

Uses

timber; balata bleeders used to drink the milksap when food was scarce.

Citation

Aubl. 1775 – In: Hist. Pl. Guiane: t. 376
d'Alleizette 1866: Explication et aescnpuon aes planches de l'Atlas de Voy. Bonite, Bot.: 157