Trichilia erythrocarpa Lundell, Bull. Torrey Bot.

Pennington, Terence D., 2016, Systematic Treatment Of American Trichilia (Meliaceae), Phytotaxa 259 (1), pp. 18-162 : 86-88

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.259.1.5

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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.

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

MICH

University of Michigan

C

University of Copenhagen

F

Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department

GH

Harvard University - Gray Herbarium

NY

William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden

S

Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Sapindales

Family

Meliaceae

Genus

Trichilia

Loc

Trichilia erythrocarpa Lundell, Bull. Torrey Bot.

Pennington, Terence D. 2016
2016
Loc

Trichilia erythrocarpa

Lundell 1937: 551
1937
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