Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Guarea microcarpa C. DC. Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5: 420. 1905
A tree, the young growth appressed-pilose; leaves 14—25 cm. long, the rachis and petioles minutely puberulent; leaflets 4-10, opposite, elliptic-lanceolate, 9-14.5 cm. long, 3.5-5.5 cm. broad, acute at the base, acuminate at the apex, glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces and rather finely and prominently reticulateveined; inflorescence axillary, 4—7 cm. long; calyx membranaceous, saucer shaped, the lobes suborbicular, acutish, glabrous; petals oblong, 5-6 mm. long, 2-2.2 mm. broad, acutish; staminal tube cylindric, glabrous, 5.5 mm. high; ovary ovoid, glabrous, sessile on the disc; capsule subglobose, 17 mm. long, 1 5 mm. broad (mature?), glabrous.
Type locality: Forest of Trejos, Las Vueltas, Tucurrique, Costa Rica. Distribution: Costa Rica.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
