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Lacistema fagifolium Chodat & Chirtoiu

Chirtoiu M (1918) Observations sur les Lacistema et la situation systematique de ce genre in Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de Geneve, H. Georg & Co., Bale & Lyon, 2me serie, Volume X(7): 342-343

Types

Holotype: Lund anno 1834 at G-DC

Isotypes: Lund anno 1834 at C, C, MO

Syntypes: None specified

Protologue

Rami robusti ad 3 mm. crassi foliiferi, albicantes, ultimi curvati, adultiores defoliati sed glomeruliferi;
Folia subcoriacea, elliptica, breviter acuminata, glabra serrulata, dentibus brevibus, basin versus integra limbo 70/34, 70/30, 60/25, 80/35 mm., petiolo 3-5 mm. lg. ad 1 mm. crasso;
ament. 3-5 mm. longi, crassiusculi, juniores in capitula glomerata; bracteae floriferae suborbiculares irregulariter serratae haud sacciformes; bracteolae filiformes apice glanduligerae;
Sepalis lanceolatis 4, discum 1/3 superantibus; discus cupuliformis filamento paulo brevior tribus inaequalibus postico 1/3 breviore, acutissimis suberectis stamen multo superantibus; filamentum staminis breve connectivo longiore brachiato angulo late aperto ramis patentibus vel horizontalibus, antheris longioribus;

Affinis Lacistema serrulata Mart. a quo differt foliis multo longioribus, amentis 7-10 mm. longis, fere 2 mm. crassis, stigmatibus erectis haud patulis.

Original document, Figure 16

Distribution

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Habitat

Not specified

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