Emmotum orbiculatum
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Description
Tree or shrub, 3-12 m tall; branchlets densely tomentose when young, glabrescent. Petiole stout, 1.5 — 3 cm long, deeply sulcate above, densely tomentose, glabrescent; blades suborbicular to ovate, elliptic-ovate or elliptic, 10-22 x 7-14 cm, margins revolute, apex obtuse to rounded, rarely acute, often with a 0.5-1 cm long acumen, sometimes truncate or slightly emarginate, base rounded, tomentose when young but soon becoming glabrous and shining above except the primary vein, densely rich yellow-brown felty-strigose beneath; primary vein sulcate above, strigose, strongly prominent beneath, secondary veins 6-12 on each side, slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, arcuate near the margin. Inflorescence 1-4densely strigose bracteate panicles, 1-2 cm long, longer in fruit. Flowers subsessile or with to 1 mm long pedicels; calyx stellate-campanulate, 2 mm in diam., 1 mm high, lobes wide-triangular; petals ovate, 5 mm long, glabrous or very shortly adpressed strigose outside, lanate on the midrib inside, base and tip glabrous; stamens 4-5 mm long, filaments 2-3 mm long, anthers ovate, 1.5-2 mm long, cordate at base, connective linear, basi-dorsifixed; ovary globose, 1.5 mm long, densely hispid, differentiated basal part glabrous, 3-celled, style short, to 1 mm long, glabrous. Drupe depressed-globose, pilose when young, glabrescent, ca. 2 cm diam., putamen woody, locules 3, mostly evenly developed.
Distribution
Rio Branco present, Rio Negro, Rio Branco, Rio Amazonas present, Southern America: Brazil North (Amazonas present), southern part of the Guianas
Brazil (Rio Branco, Amazonas). Caatinga and campos vegetations in the Rio Negro, Rio Branco, Rio Amazonas region; possibly to be expected to occur in the southern part of the Guianas.