Sorocea hirtella subsp. oligotricha
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Description
Shrub or tree up to 10m tall. Branchlets puberulous. Stipules 0.5-1.2 cm long, puberulous; petiole (0.5-)0.8-1.6 cm long; blade coriaceous to subcoriaceous, narrowly elliptic to elliptic or narrowly obovate to obovate, (6.5)12-30(-50) x (2.5-)4-13(-16) cm, apex acuminate, base acute to rounded, margin subentire, sometimes dent(icul)ate, minutely puberulous on the primary vein above, sparsely puberulous to glabrous beneath; veins more or less prominent beneath, secondary veins (8-)10-20(-25) pairs, tertiary veins partly scalariform. Staminate inflorescences spicate2-12(-16) cm long; peduncle 0.1-0.4 cm long; flowers sessile; tepals ciliolate; filaments 0.2-1.5 mm long; bracts subcoriaceous. Pistillate inflorescences 3-5 cm, in fruit up to 9.5 cm long; peduncle 0.1-0.5 cm, in fruit up to 1 cm long; flowers 3-15(-20), sessile or sometimes up to 0.3 cm long pedunculate, in fruit pedicel up to 1.5 cm long; perianth 2-4 mm high, upper part narrowly to broadly ovoid, sparsely puberulous, lower part densely minutely puberulous; stigmas 0.7-1.2 mm long; fruiting perianth subglobose, 1-1.7 cm in diam., almost glabrous; bracts subcoriaceous.
Distribution
Guyana present, Pakaraima Mts present, Southern America: Colombia (Colombia present); Ecuador (Ecuador present); Peru (Peru present), Upper Amazon Basin present, northern Colombia present, northern Venezuela present, southern Venezuela present
Upper Amazon Basin (Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia), extending to southern Venezuela and Guyana; in the Pakaraima Mts.; also in northern Colombia and northern Venezuela.