Trichilia erythrocarpa Lundell, Bull. Torrey Bot.
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34. Trichilia erythrocarpa Lundell, Bull. Torrey Bot. View in CoL Club 64: 551 (1937); T. D.Penn., Fl. Neotrop. 28: 60 (1981). Type:— BELIZE. El Cayo District, near Cohune Ridge, fl, fr., Lundell 6495 (holotype, MICH, n.v.; isotypes C, F, GH, NY, S, US). Plate 9 View PLATE 9 , Map 40
Illustration: FN 28: 156, fig. 28 (1981).
Abbreviated Description. Young growth densely puberulous to tomentose with simple crisped basifixed hairs, leaflets 7–12, alternate to subopposite, 9 × 3–14 × 4.5 cm, elliptic, oblong or lanceolate, leaflet margin slightly revolute, inflorescence 5–17.5 cm long, a pyramidal thyrse, flowers +/- pendulous in bud, petals 4–5, 2–4 mm long, free, valvate, filaments completely fused into a cyathiform or urceolate staminal tube, anthers 8–10, nectary absent, ovary pubescent, 3-locular, locules with 2 collateral ovules, capsule 1.5–2 cm long, 3-valved, ellipsoid to oblong, smooth, densely appressed pubescent, seed solitary, completely surrounded by a fleshy arillode.
Distribution & Ecology. Veracruz, Mexico to southern Yucatan Peninsula of Guatemala and Belize. A component of evergreen or semideciduous rain forest, usually over limestone, ascending to 750 m elevation in the Maya mountains in Belize.
MAP 40. Distribution of Trichilia erythrocarpa Lundell. Solid dots, distribution pre-1981, open dots new records 1981–2010.
Additional Collections Examined. MEXICO. Chiapas: Municipio Ocosingo, 1.4 km E of Crucero Corozal
(NW1691), Alvarez & Chambor 4928 (K, MO); 5 km E of Crucero Corazal (NW1691), E. Martinez 7292 (MO).
Oaxaca: Municipio Santa Maria Chimalapa, Arroyo Milagritos (NW1694), Hernandez 277 (MO). Veracruz: Hidalgotitlán, Brecha Hnos. Cedillo-La Escuadra (NW1794), Vásquez et al. 124 (NY).
GUATEMALA. Petén: La Cumbre, W of Cadenas road (NW1689), Contreras 8857 (MO), Lundell & Contreras 19875 (MO), 20020 (NY).
BELIZE. Cayo: Chiquibul Forest Reserve (NW1689), Ibañez A49 (MEXU). Toledo: Southern Maya Mountains, Bladen Nature Reserve (NW1688), Davidse et al. 35869 (K); Columbia River Forest Reserve, Union Camp (NW1689), Holst 4052 (K).
Relationships. On morphological grounds this species was thought to be a close relative of T. quadrijuga (FN28: 161 (1981)) and their close relationship is confirmed by the ITS analysis.
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Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics |
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University of Michigan |
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University of Copenhagen |
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Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department |
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Harvard University - Gray Herbarium |
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William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden |
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Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History |
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Trichilia erythrocarpa Lundell, Bull. Torrey Bot.
| Pennington, Terence D. 2016 |
Trichilia erythrocarpa
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