Cheiloclinium belizense
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Description
Liana, occasionally a low tree; branchlets (sub)terete, greyish or purplish. Petiole 4-16 mm long; blades chartaceous to subcoriaceous, dark green above, pale below, elliptic, ovate or oblong, 10-22 x 3-9 cm, margins entire, apex long-acuminate to short-cuspidate, base cuneate, acute or obtuse; primary vein prominent on both surfaces, secondary veins 6-15 per side, slightly prominulous to impressed above, prominent below, tertiary veins prominulous or flattened above, prominulous below, reticulate, sometimes elongately so. Inflorescences axillary or arising from defoliate branches, dichotomously branched, to 13 cm long, sometimes verruculose; peduncle 0-5 cm long; bracts and bracteoles deltoid-ovate, to 2 mm long; pedicels to 5 mm long, sometimes with yellow dots. Flowers fragrant, 2-4.5 mm diam.; sepals greenish, broadly ovate, 0.5-0.8 x 0.5-1 mm, entire or faintly erosulous; petals spreading, fleshy, cream, brownish yellow, or whitish green, occasionally reddish brown outside, sometimes punctate or lineate, ovate to oblong, 1.5-2.3 x 0.8-1.8 mm, obtuse, subentire; disk red, 0.1-0.2 mm high, 0.4-0.6 mm wide, consisting of 3 staminiferous pockets; stamens 3, filaments ca. 0.6 mm long, anthers ca. 0.2 x 0.4 mm; ovary to 1.2 mm high, sometimes with yellow dots, ovules 2 per locule, superposed, stigmas 3, deltoid, the tips entire, obtuse, 0.2 mm long. Fruits pendent, on thickened pedicels, globose or ovoid, to 5 x 4 cm, pericarp green to havana-brown, conspicuously lenticellate or smooth.
Distribution
French Guiana present, Guianas present, Guyana present, Southern America: Brazil North (Amazonas present); Brazil West-Central (Mato Grosso present); Colombia (Colombia present); Venezuela (Venezuela present)
Central America, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Colombia, Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso). ; about 30 collections studied, 9 from the Guianas (GU: 6; FG: 3).