Lacistema pittieri S.F. Blake

IPNI :
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:134475-2

CoL2017 :
urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:2f7a8f2b-d35f-11e6-9d3f-bc764e092680:col20170308

This protologue was never written in Latin therefore this name is invalid.

Tree 4 m high;

Branches : slender, strigose;

Leaves : alternate; petioles strigose 4-6 mm long; blades oval-oblong or obovate-oval, 10-12 cm long, 3.8-4.8 cm wide, rather abruptly acuminate (the point acute 1.5cm long) at base rounded-cuneate, subchartaceous, above deep green, somewhat shining, glabrous, beneath duller green, pilose with ascending or spreading hairs along the costa and the 6 pairs of lateral veins, glabrous on surface, the secondaries straightish, prominulous on both sides;

Racemes : in axillary clusters of 1-3, sordid-hispidulous, 2-2.5 cm long, 3-4 mm thick, rather loosely flowered; bracts 2 subtending each flower, the lower triangular, pubescent, 0.7 mm long, the upper tubular-campanulate, essentially glabrous, deeply bifid, 0.8 mm long; pedicels glabrous, 1.5 mm long;

Sepals : 4, ovate, 0.9 mm long, obtuse obscurely serrulate, glabrous; disk thick, annular;

Stamen : 1, glabous, the stout subulate filament 0.5 mm long, the connective dilated, the anther cells divergent;

Ovary : densely hispid-pilose, the placentae 3, each bearing 2 ovules; style none; stigmas 3, about half as long as the ovary

pittieri :
Latin - named for Henri Francois Pittier (1857 - 1950)