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ree or shrub 2 –10 m tall, 3 – 30 cm diam; young twigs and petiole densely covered with erect and appressed, white hairsto c. 0.5 mm long. Leaves: petiole 2–9 mm long, 1–2 mm diam; lamina elliptic to obovate to narrowly so, 6 – 21 by 3 – 9 cm, rather densely covered with erect and appressed hairs, becom-ing sparsely so to glabrous above, densely covered with erectand appressed, white hairs below, base acute to obtuse, apexacute to acuminate (acumen 5 –15 mm long), venation weakly brochidodromous, primary vein slightly impressed above, sec-ondary veins 8–12 on either side of primary vein, slightly raised to flat above, tertiary veins slightly raised to flat above, more orless percurrent. Inflorescence and flower indument: pedicelsand outer side of bracts, sepals, and petals densely to ratherdensely covered with appressed and erect, white hairs. Flowerssolitary, leaf-opposed; pedicels 5 – 20 mm long, c. 1 mm diam, to c. 3 mm diam in fruit; bract leafy, ovate-triangular, 3 – 30 by 3 –15 mm; sepals c. 6-veined, ovate-triangular, 4 – 8 by 3 – 5 mm, finally reflexed; petals membranous, green, maturing red to brownish red, 5- or 6-veined, narrowly oblong-ovate, 20 – 40 by 5 –12 mm, base obtuse to rounded and ultimately truncate, c. 4 mm wide, abruptly narrowed into a geniculate claw, c. 3 by 2 mm, the food body white, glistening, apex obtuse to acutewith a rounded tip. Monocarps 2 –11, green to yellow, matur-ing orange, ellipsoid, obovoid, to spherical, 10 – 35 by 10 – 25 mm, densely to sparsely covered with erect, curly, white hairs,finally glabrous, wall 1– 2 mm thick, stipes absent. Seeds 1– 6, in one or two rows, spherical wedge-shaped, 10 –15 by 4 – 9 mm, smooth, pale brown. Distribution — Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras. Habitat & Ecology — In low, dry, semideciduous forest. At elevations of 0 – 250(–1200) m. Flowering: March to June; fruiting: March to December. Vernacular names — Belize: Bastard Custard Apple (Gentle3980), Boy Job, Elemuy, Palanco, Sufricaya, Tuspi del monte (Arvigo 263). Guatemala: Anonilla (Contreras 5439), Ché ku’uk xib’al (Wallnöfer & Tut-Testucun 5925, Maya name), Cojon de Venado, Nitxmaxche (Maya name), Saramuyo silvestre (Wall-nöfer 9652, Itzá Maya name). Honduras: Palanco. Mexico: Anonillo, Chac Elemuy (Yucatán), Chacmax (Campeche), Chac Nich Max (Yucatán), Ganiste Tsub (Yucatán), Hazche (Yucatán), Kanistetsub (Quintana Roo), Lancewood (Yucatán) (Schott 559), Zac Elemuy (Yucatán). Uses — ‘Make a hedge around the house; to fasten the palm leaves on the roof of a house; fire wood’ (Wallnöfer 9652,Guatemala). Note — Fries (1930) included S. campechianus in his sect. Microsapranthus along with S. microcarpus because of itsrelatively smaller flowers with fewer carpels. However, with rela-tively larger monocarps and wedge-shaped seeds in two rows,and lacking verruculose leaves with domatia, S. campechianusis clearly more closely related to all other Sapranthus speciesthan it is to S. microcarpus, and is therefore assigned herein tosect. Sapranthus. Within sect. Sapranthus, S. campechianus isdis tinguished by its small sepals (4–8 mm long), membranous, red petals and smooth, sessile monocarps.
(16) (PDF) Revision of the Neotropical genus Sapranthus (Annonaceae). Available from:
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