Trichilia moschata Sw., Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.259.1.5 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B87F5-4234-FFC8-D398-76B0FA594523 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Trichilia moschata Sw., Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. |
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53. Trichilia moschata Sw., Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. View in CoL 67 (1788); T. D.Penn., Fl. Neotrop. 28: 194 (1981). Type:— JAMAICA, fl., Swartz s.n. (holotype, S, isotype G-DC). Maps 59–60
Abbreviated Description. Indumentum of appressed mostly dibrachiate hairs, leaflets 5–15, usually alternate, 8.5 × (2–)3–17(–25) × 5(–6.5) cm, elliptic or oblong, inflorescence (3–)5–20(–30) cm long, a few- to many-flowered thyrse, petals (4–)5(–6), 3–4 mm long, usually fused for 1/3–2/3 their length, becoming reflexed, valvate, filaments completely fused in a staminal tube, margin with acute to subulate lobes, anthers (6–)8–10, nectary absent, ovary densely strigose, (2–)3(–4)-locular, locules with 2 collateral ovules, capsule 1.6–2.4 cm long, (2–)3(–4)-valved, broadly ellipsoid, ovoid or obovoid, usually smooth, sericeous to tomentose, seeds 1–2, completely surrounded by a thin arillode.
Key to the subspecies of Trichilia moschata .
1. Leaf rhachis 6–15 cm, leaflets 5–9(–10), nearly always elliptic or oblanceolate, 8.5–16.6 cm long .................... a. subsp. moschata View in CoL
-. Leaf rhachis 23–40 cm long, leaflets 11–13, usually oblong, 13–25 cm long ....................................................... b. subsp. matudai View in CoL
T |
Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics |
S |
Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History |
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