Revisional study of neotropical Beilschmiedia species (Lauraceae ...

sides, lower leaf surface not glaucous; n1idrib immersed above, raised below, secondary
veins (7) 8-13 pairs, slight! y or conspicuously raised above, raised below, tertiary veins not
percurrent, ramification coarse, square-like with free veinlets, slightly raised or almost
immersed above, slightly or conspicuously raised below. Inflorescences usually clustered
around tem1inal buds or on short leafless shoots, rarely axillary, paniculate, 3-9 cn1long,
sparsely pubescent with erect hairs to glabrous, with 20-50 flowers per inflorescence; flower
pedicels of the lateral divisions ( 1.5) 3-5 mm long, pedicels of the central flowers up to 7
nm1long. Flowers greenish-yellow to creamy, 2.5-4 nlffi long, 2.6-3.2 mm in diam.; tepals
6, equal, ovate, 1.3-2.2 rru11 long, 1-1.5 ( 1.8) mm wide, almost glabrous or sparsely
pubescent with more or less appressed hairs outside, sparsely pubescent with appressed to
erect (wavy) hairs inside; stan1ens 9, outer six filaments 0.4-0.6 mm long, innem1ost three
stamens 0.5-0.8 mm long, filaments pubescent, anthers 0.7-1.1 nlffi long, all the anthers 2-
celled, apex of the anthers obtuse to acute, apex of the anthers glabrous, glands of innermost
three stamens globose; staminodia 3, cordate in outline, ca. 0.8 mm long; pistil ca. 1.8 nlffi
long, glabrous, ovary as long as and gradually narrowed into the style; receptacle pubescent
with appressed or rarely erect hairs, less densely toward the bottom. Fruits ellipsoid, blackpurple,
ca. 3.3 x ca. 1.8 em, the surface smooth; infructescence axis 2.5-3 n1m in diam.,
fruit pedicels thickened to 5 mn1 in diam. below the fruit, fruit pedicels not constricted,
without lenticels and darker than the infructescence axis.
Phenology: collected in flower from Decen1ber to February, in n1ature fruit in all months
except for January and April.
Distribution: Costa Rica (Guanacaste and Puntarenas), Panama, 700-1800 malt. (Fig. 8) .
Habitat: lower montane wet forest.
Common name: "Chancho blanco", "Chancho colorado", "Chancho rosado" in Costa Rica.
Economic use: unknown.
Additional specin1ens examined: Costa Rica. Alajuela: Canton Alfaro Ruiz, 1700 malt., May. I 0,
1941 (sterile), A. Smith 2717 (F); Reserva Forestal San Ramon, Campamento Rfo San Lorencito, 10° 13'N
84°37'W, 900-1100 m alt., Feb. 17, 1989 (fl.), Gomez 11772 (FM). Guanacaste: Canton de Liberia, Parque
Nacional Guanacaste, Estacion Cacao, 10o55'45"N 8Y28'15"W, 1100 malt., Oct. 3, 1990 (fr.), Chavez 216
(CR, INB, MO); same locality, 1100 1!1 alt., Nov. 2, 1990 (immature fr.), Chavez 333 (INB, MO); same
locality, 1100 m alt., Apr. 11 , 1991 (immature fr.), C hcivez 545 (CR, INB, MO); same locality, 1100 malt.,
Jul. 14, 1991 (immature fr.), Chcivez563 (CR, MO); same locality, 10o55'45"N 8Y29'15"W, 1100 malt., Nov.
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