Drypetes lateriflora (Sw.) Krug & Urb. In Urban (1893: 354)

Leyva, Luis Manuel & García-Beltrán, José Angel, 2024, Taxonomical update of the genus Drypetes (Malpighiales: Putranjivaceae) in Cuba, Phytotaxa 655 (1), pp. 54-64 : 58

Drypetes lateriflora (Sw.) Krug & Urb. In Urban (1893: 354) .

≡ Schaefferia lateriflora Swartz (1788: 38) .

Lectotype (designated here):—HISPANIOLA. 1760–1818. O. P. Swartz s.n. (lectotype S #11-20786 [photo!], isolectotype: S #S-R-5599 [photo!])

– “ Drypetes glauca ” sensu Grisebach (1860 , 1865, 1866), Müller (1866), Urban (1893), Pax & Hoffman (1922)

– “ Drypetes crocea var. genuina ” sensu Müller (1866)

Diagnostic features:— Drypetes lateriflora differs from the other species of the genus in Cuba and the Caribbean by presenting a lateral position of the inflorescence (vs. axillary in the rest) and a bilocular ovary with two carpels ( Figure 1D–F ) while there is a single carpel in the rest).

Lectotypification:—In the description of Schaefferia lateriflora for Hispaniola, Swartz (1788) mentions very few characters to differentiate this species, only the presence of apetalous flowers inserting laterally to the leaf. Of the four O. P. Swartz s.n. materials existing in S under the name S. lateriflora determined by Swartz himself, one has no locality (S #11-20785), another constitutes a mixture of two recollections of the same species but from “ Jamaica ” (S #11-1810) and “Sto Domingo” (S #S-R-5600), and the remaining two constitute materials from “Hispaniola”, one of them being a male individual (S #S-R-5599) and the other a female individual (S #11-20786). Therefore, only these last two materials represent original elements according to the protologue of S. lateriflora and the type material must be selected between them. Taking into considerations that Swartz (1788) includes this species within the group Digynia (flower that has two pistils, each with two stigmas), it infers that the author relies for the description of this taxon on a female material. Thus, the material we designate as lectotype is S #11-20786.

Distribution:—Endemic to the Americas.Native to the Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hispaniola, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States. In Cuba, it grows in the provinces Pinar del Río, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Matanzas, Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus, Camagüey, Holguín, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and the Isla de la Juventud special municipality, in gallery forest, microphyllous evergreen forest, mesophyllous evergreen forest, microphyllous semideciduous forest, mesophyllous semideciduous forest, coastal and sub-coastal xeromorphic thicket, anthropic savannas and mogotes vegetation complex, with an elevation between 10–800 m ( Figure 3 ).

Specimens examined:— CUBA. Without date, C. Wright 1927 ( US #969076, #969097). V. Herman 8407 (HAC). C. Wright 593 (BR #13319847, G-DC #325930). O. P. Swartz s.n. (G-DC #325932). 1856–1857, C. Wright 593 (BR #13319830). 1865, C. Wright 1927 ( US #969096). 1860–1864, C. Wright 1927 (K #572905). Pinar del Río: “El Jarrete”, 31 January 1952, E. E. Smith 331 (HAC). “El Valle, Península de Guanahacabibes”, March 1960, A. Fors 197 (HAC SV-21312). “El Veral, Península de Guanahacabibes”, 25 March 1976, A. Borhidi & R. Oviedo 27883–27884 (HAC). “Entre Babiyenes y Punta de la Yana”, 10 April 1938, J. T. Roig & L. Valdés ROIG-487 (HAC). “Herradura”, 20 August 1905, Herman 5805 (HAC). 22 August 1905, Herman 5805 (HAC). 26 August 1905, Herman 5805 (HAC). “Las Martinas”, 9–12 April 1938 J. Acuña & J. T. Roig SV-10886 (HAC [×2]). “P.R. de Guane”, 22 November 1915, J. T. Roig ROIG-6328 (HAC). “Valle de San Juan, Península de Guanahacabibes”, 5 April 1924, J. T. Roig ROIG-8473 (HAC). Artemisa: “Rocky hillside, Sierra de Anafe”, 26 December 1911, P. Wilson & Bro. León 11530 ( US #1318298). “Sierra de Anafe”, 26 December 1911, P. Wilson & Bro. León 9836 (HAC). Mayabeque: “Lomas al este de Boca de Canasí”, 12 April 1980, J. Bisse et al. HFC-42102 (HAJB). Matanzas: “Cayo Ramones”, 31 July 1920, J. T. Roig & M. Cremata s.n. (HAC). “Cayo Ramones, Hacienda Júcaro Quemado, Aguada de Pasajeros”, 31 July 1920, J. T. Roig & M. Cremata ROIG-7468 (HAC). “Cerca de la Baya [Bahía] de Cochinos, al este de Playa Larga, alt 2 m ”, 9 March 2000, W. Greuter et al. 25315 ( US #1302513). “Ciénaga de Zapata”, December 1985, R. Oviedo & E. del Risco 33739 (HAC). Isla de la Juventud: “Coastal plain, San Juan”, 15–17 March 1916, N. L. Britton et al. 15528 (NY #2852276, US #1318294). “Lomas de la Sierra de Casas”, 25 October 1976, J. Bisse et al. HFC-32852 (HAC SV-31858 [×2]). “Wooded limestone hill, Coe’s Camp, Ensenada de Siguanea”, 25 February 1916, N. L. Britton & P. Wilson 14891 (NY #2852278). Villa Clara: “Hillside, Trinidad Mountains, Santa Clara. Los Cocos, near Siguanea”, 5–6 March 1910, N. L. Britton & P. Wilson 5062 (NY #2852270). “Santa Clara, Caibarién, Cayo Francés”, 22 February 1924, E. L. Ekman 18556 ( US #1318295). Cienfuegos: “Belmonte Brook, Soledad”, 14 February 1928, J. G. Jack 5679 (HAC, US #1318282). “Buenos Aires, Trinidad Mountains”, 11 november 1941, C. V. Morton 4227 (HAC, US #969098). “Las Vegas de Mataguá, Buenos Aires”, 28 August 1931, J. G. Jack & G. C. Rowe 7859 (CAS #669110, US #1318281). 8 April 1930, J. G. Jack 7859 ( US #1318283). “Las Vegas de Mataguá, Buenos Aires”, 25 April 1930, J. G. Jack 7859 ( US #1318303). “San Blas, La Sierra”, 26 April 1930, J. G. Jack 7959 (CAS #669109, US #1318304). Sancti Spíritus: “Falda Sur de las Lomas de Banao”, Withou date, A. Areces et al. HFC-28778 (HAC SV-45136 [×2]). “Cerca de Gavilanes”, 7 November 1979, P. Herrera & N. Inchamitokaja 34815 (Imk. 410) (HAC). “La Gloria”, 18 February 1916, J. T. Roig & Ballou ROIG-6463 (HAC). “South of Sancti Spiritus”, 1920–1921, A. Luna 962 (HAC). Camagüey: “Cayo Ballenato Medio”, March 1909, J. A. Shafer 1021 ( US #1318300). “Ganado, Cayo Sabinal”, 17–18 March 1909, J. A. Shafer 897 ( US #1318299). “La Reforma”, 19 May 1915, J. T. Roig et al. ROIG-6232 (HAC). Holguín: “Dos Bahías, Cabonico”, 16 September 1917, J. T. Roig ROIG-6657 (HAC). “Jagüeyes de Mulas”, 21 August 1917, J. T. Roig ROIG-6533 (HAC). “Monte Centeno”, 3–18 November 1945, J. Acuña SV-22636 (HAC). “Wooded coastal hill, Punta Piedra, Nipe Bay”, 7 March 1912, N. L. Britton 12488 (NY #2852275, US #1318297). Granma: “Corojo, on the path to “Pinar del Jigüe”, in forest”, 29 March 1915, E. L. Ekman 5149 ( US #1318293). Santiago de Cuba: “Bayate, in forest”, 26 December 1917, E. L. Ekman 8532 ( US #1318302). “Loma del Gato”, January 1933, Bro. Clemente NSC-227 (HAC). “Papayo (of the Sevilla tract) in the Mandinga hill”, 9 October 1918, E. L. Ekman 9459 ( US #969099). “Sevilla Estate, Near Santiago. Mountain, Ubero River”, 8 September 1906, N. Taylor 261 (NY #2852252, #2852254). “Uvero”, 24 February 1952, E. E. Smith 354 (HAC). Guantánamo: “Figuabillos, Cañete”, 2 September 1917, J. T. Roig ROIG-6596 (HAC). “Los Caños”, May 1889, H. F. A. Eggers 5380 ( US #1318305). “Mesa Mirabel”, July 1938, Bro. León LS-17027 (HAC). “Orillas del río Toa, en Dos Pasos”, 29 July 1953, Bro. Alain 3465 (HAC). “Woodlands, San Carlos”, 19–31 March 1909, N. L. Britton 2290 ( US #1318296).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Morphological variability of Drypetes alba subsp. latifolia (A–C), D. lateriflora (D–F) and D. mucronata (G–I) in Cuba in their leaves (A, D and G; scale bars: 2 cm), female flowers (B, E and H; scale bars: 1 mm) and fruits (C, D and I; scale bars: 1 cm). Photos: J. L. Gómez-Hechavarría (A, D and G) and L. M. Leyva (the rest).

FIGURE 3. Distribution map of Drypetes lateriflora in Cuba.