Protium section Pepeanthos, a neotropical group of nine species ranging from Costa Rica to the southern perimeter of Amazonia, is described, as are the group's five new species: P. calendulinum, P. gallosum, P. pecuniosum, P. retusum, and P. urophyllidium. Keys are provided to flowering and to fruiting material. The new section is characterized by a milky resin; lateral leaflet pulvinuli inconspicuous or absent; style short-branched and the stigmas caudiculate and spiculate; and the cotyledons plano-convex.
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1 January 2007
A new section of Protium from the neotropics. Studies in neotropical Burseraceae XIII
Douglas C. Daly
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Brittonia
Vol. 59 • No. 1
January 2007
Vol. 59 • No. 1
January 2007
Amazonia
Burseraceae
Cuatrecasas
Neotropics
Protium
taxonomy