Entada simplicata (Barneby) Sch. Rodr. & A.S. Flores, Phytotaxa 39: 47. 2012.
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Entada simplicata (Barneby) Sch. Rodr. & A.S. Flores, Phytotaxa 39: 47. 2012. |
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Entada simplicata (Barneby) Sch. Rodr. & A.S. Flores, Phytotaxa 39: 47. 2012.
Type.
BRAZIL. Roraima, Municipality Caracaraí, North Perimetral Road (BR-210) 10 km from the junction with the Manaus-Caracaraí Road (BR-174), near Novo Paraiso, C.A. Cid Ferreira 9220 (holotype: INPA; isotype: NY [NY00038703]) .
Basionym.
Entada polystachya var. simplicata Barneby, Brittonia 48: 175. 1996.
Description.
Liana or scandent shrub to 10 m. Leaves: petiole 3.7-7.7 cm long, rachis 5.8-13 cm long; pinnae 1-3 pairs per leaf, 1.6-3.7 cm long, with 1-3 pairs of leaflets; leaflets 2.5-8.3 × (1.8-)2.2-5.2 cm, obovate to broadly elliptic, apex retuse to truncate, base asymmetric, rounded to cuneate, both surfaces glabrous. Inflorescence: a terminal one-sided panicle of up-turned spikes, each spike rachis 16-26 cm long. Flowers: calyx 1-1.2 mm long, shallowly toothed; petals 2.2-3.3 mm long; stamen filaments 3.8-4.5 mm long. Fruit: a torulose, laterally compressed craspedium, 25.5-29 × 3.8-5.3 cm, with transverse septa between seeds dividing the fruit into one-seeded segments which, upon ripening, fall from the persistent replum. Seeds: elliptic, 14-20 × 9-13 mm, with pleurogram.
Distribution.
Brazil (Roraima State).
Habitat and ecology.
Open margins of wet tropical forest on rocky slopes.
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