Weinmannia marquesana
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Ordo: Oxalidales
Familia: Cunoniaceae
Genus: Weinmannia
Name
Weinmannia marquesana Lorence & W. L. Wagner – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Weinmannia marquesana Lorence, David H., 2011, PhytoKeys 4: 61-61.
Description
Description. Shrub or small tree 2-3 m tall, leafy twigs 0.8-1 mm in diam., terete, sparsely strigose with pale brown hairs when young, glabrate, reddish brown and lenticellate when fresh. Leaves opposite, unifoliate, blade narrowly elliptic to oblong elliptic, 2.5-5.8 x 0.4-1.2 cm, costa strigulose on both surfaces, glabrescent above; secondary veins 8-10 pairs, red or yellow when fresh, visible above, higher order venation reticulate, prominulous and visible to tertiary beneath, margins finely serrate, thickened, with 8-14 teeth on each side; petioles 1.5-8 x 0.7-0.8 mm, narrowly winged, strigulose, red when fresh; stipules rounded, 0.3-0.7 mm long, apex obtuse, strigulose, thick, persistent. Inflorescences 3.5-5.5 x 2-5 cm, usually trichotomous and consisting of 3(5) racemes, sessile or on slender peduncle 10-15 mm, the axes strigulose, red when fresh, each raceme with 25-40 flowers; bracteoles reduced or absent; flowers on pedicels 0.8-1.7 mm long, calyx lobes 0.6-0.9 x 0.5-0.6 mm, broadly ovate, obtuse, sparsely strigulose or glabrous without, deciduous in fruit; petals broadly ovate, 1-1.4 x 0.7-0.9 mm, apex obtuse; male flowers with stamens twice as long as pistil, filaments 2-2.5 mm, anthers ovoid, 0.4 mm, ovary 0.6-0.7 mm, style 0.2 mm, stigma bilobed and slightly thickened; female flowers with stamens subequal to pistil, filaments 1-1.2 mm, anthers ovoid, 0.2 mm, abortive, ovary 1 mm, strigulose, styles 2, 0.6-0.8 mm, stigma bilobed, papillose, and slightly thickened. Infructescence 5-7 x 5.5-6.5 cm; capsules narrowly obovoid, 4-5 x 1.5-2 mm (excluding the styles), strigulose, the persistent styles 1 mm. Seeds narrowly oblong- ellipsoid, c. 0.8-1 mm, comose with tuft of hairs 0.3-0.4 mm at each end.
Distribution
Distribution. Known only from the summit ridge of Tahuata, Marquesas Islands.
Taxon Treatment
- Lorence, David H.; Wagner, Warren L.; 2011: Weinmannia marquesana var. angustifolia (Cunoniaceae), a new variety from the Marquesas Islands, PhytoKeys 4: 61-61. doi
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