Cheiloclinium anomalum
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Description
Liana with slender branches. Petiole 5-11 mm long; blades chartaceous to thin-coriaceous, often somewhat pale below when dried, elliptic(- oblong), 5-15 x 2-5.8 cm, margins subentire to crenate-serrate, apex cuspidate or short-acuminate, base obtuse to acute, decurrent into the petiole; primary vein prominent on both surfaces, secondary veins 5-8 per side, arcuately ascending, prominulous on both surfaces, tertiary veins prominulous on both surfaces or inconspicuous above, parallel. Inflorescence dichotomously branched, 2-5 cm long (to 25 cm in "galled" specimen); peduncles to 1.5 cm long; bracts and bracteoles deltoid, less than 1 mm long; pedicels to 4 mm long. Flowers 2.5-3 mm diam.; sepals 0.5-0.9 x 0.7-1.3 mm, obtuse; petals fleshy, greenish-white or creamish, swollen at base and along midvein, rounded, 1.3-1.8 x 1-1.5 mm, entire; disk to 1.5 mm high, yellow dotted, consisting of 5 staminiferous pockets; stamens 5, filaments 0.4 mm long, anthers 0.1-0.2 x 0.2-0.3 mm; ovary ca. 1 mm diam., ovules 2 per locule, superposed, stigmas 5, tips entire. Fruit obovoid-ellipsoid, 3-6 x 2.5-3.5 cm, pericarp coriaceous, smooth, 1 mm thick; seeds 1.5 x 1 cm.
Distribution
Guianas present, Guyana present, Southern America: Brazil North (Amazonas present, Pará present); Brazil Southeast (Rio de Janeiro present); Panamá (Panamá present); Peru (Peru present); Venezuela (Venezuela present), Suriname present
Panama, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Peru and Brazil (Amazonas, Para, Rio de Janeiro); 26 collections studied, 7 from the Guianas (GU: 2; SU: 5).