Revisional study of neotropical Beilschmiedia species (Lauraceae ...

Beilschmiedia immersinervis also appears to be similar to B. steyermarkii. About the
difference between them, see the notes under B. immersinervis.
As Allen (1945) reported, the type specimen of B. steyermarkii has few-flowered
inflorescences, but the precise number of flowers in the inflorescences is uncertain because
the inflorescences are broken. Another specimen of this species, which was collected after
her description, has the inflorescences with relatively many ( 40-65) flowers.
25. Beilschmiedia stricta Kostermans in Rec. Trav. Bot. Neerl. 35: 863. 1938. TYPE:
Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: G. Portella, Monte Sinai, 1935 (fl.), Nunes 313 (holotype; U
not seen, isotype, RB).
Tree, height unknown. Terminal buds pubescent with straight appressed hairs. Twigs
terete, younger ones compressed, sparsely pubescent with appressed hairs, less densely to
glabrous when older. Leaves opposite; petioles ca. 1 em long, canaliculate to flat above,
glabrous, slightly darker than branches; blades firmly chartaceous, elliptic, (5) 8-9 x 2.5-4
em; base cuneate, not inrolled, apex acute; leaf surface glabrous on both sides, lower leaf
surface not glaucous; midrib immersed or impressed above, raised below, secondary veins
9-13 pairs, raised on both sides, tertiary veins not percurrent, ramification coarse, squarelike
with free veinlets, raised on both sides. Inflorescences axillary, racemose, 1.5-2.5 cn1
long, pubescent with more or less appressed hairs, with 5-10 flowers per inflorescence;
flower pedicels of the lateral divisions 0.5-1.2 mm long, pedicels of the central flowers up to
3 n1mlong. Flowers ca. 2.5 mn1long, ca. 2.7 mm in diam.; tepals 6, aln1ost equal, ovate,
ca. 1.8 mn1long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, pubescent with appressed hairs outside, sparsely
pubescent with appressed hairs or almost glabrous inside; stamens 9, outer six filaments ca.
0.4 mm long, innermost three filaments ca. 0.5 mm long, pubescent, anthers ca. 1.1 mm
long, all anthers 2-celled, apex of the anthers obtuse to truncate, anthers pubescent, glands
of innermost three stamens globose; staminodia 3, cordate in outline, ca 0.8 mm long; pistil
1.4-1.6 mm long, glabrous, ovary as long as the and gradually narrowed into the style;
receptacle sparsely pubescent with appressed hairs. Mature fruits unknown, young fruit
ellipsoid, the surface warty; young fruit pedicels not constricted at the base, covered with
lenticels and concolorous with the infructescence axis.
Phenology: unknown.
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