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Guarea macrophylla Vahl, Eclog. 3: 8. 1807
*Guarea Perrollelinna A. Juss. Mem. Mus. Paris 19: 241, 285. 1830. Guarea Perrottetii Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 131. 1859.
A small, medium-sized, or rarely a large tree; leaves equally pinnate, 1.5-3 dm. long; leaflets 6-10, opposite, petioluled, oblong-elliptic to ovate, or somewhat oblong-obovate, 1-2 dm. long, 4-9 cm. broad, punctate with minute, pellucid dots, rounded or acute at the base, abruptly acuminate at the apex, glabrous above, papillose, puberulent on the midrib and lateral veins beneath when young, glabrate in age, reticulate-veined, the veins slender; panicles raceme-like, 2-4 dm. long, the branches puberulent with brownish hairs; calyx appressed-puberulent, cup-shaped when young, more or less deeply 2-4-lobed in age, the lobes triangular, ovate, or half oval, often acute, more or less unequal, the stipe-like base usually shorter or occasionally about equal in length to the pedicel, the pedicels slightly enlarged and with a ring of prominent hairs at the top; petals oblong, 9-11 mm. long, 2.5-4 mm. broad, densely strigillose-pubescent on the back; staminal tube cylindric, 8-10 mm. high, sparingly puberulent, entire or shallowly lobed; anthers oblong; disk prominent, columnar, enlarged at the top, glabrous or nearly so; ovary 4-celled, oblong-ellipsoid or somewhat oblong-ovoid, densely and shortly appressed-hirsute; style columnar, strigillose-pubescent; stigma peltate, exserted; gynophore glabrous; capsule globose-pyriform, velutinous, 2.5-2.8 cm. long, 1.8-2.5 cm. broad; seeds solitary in each cell, 1.2-1.5 cm. long, 0.8-1 cm. broad.
Type locality: Guadeloupe.
Distribution: Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, and Dominica.
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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
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