Amaioua glomerulata (Lam. ex Poir.) Delprete & C. H. Perss.

Photo of Amaioua corymbosa, fruit & leaves by Andres Hernandez. Includes key words and geographic location. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

STRI has 18 photos illustrating a number of the key features of Amaioua corymbosa.

Amaioua corymbosa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 419. 1820
Gardenia hexandra Willd.; R. & S. Syst. Veg. 5: 243. 1819.
Amaioua fagifolia Desf. Mem. Mus. Paris 6: 14. 1820.
Amaioua guianensis Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 39. 1881. Not A. guianensis Aubl. 1775.
Shrub, 2-5 meters high, the branches grayish or brown, the branchlets stout, subangulate, ferrugino-sericeous, the internodes stout; stipules lance-oblong, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, ferruginosericeous outside, glabrous and glandular within; petioles stout, 3-15 mm. long, densely ferrugino-sericeous; leaf-blades oval, ovate-oval, or oval-elliptic, 5-20 cm. long, 3-10 cm. wide, broadly rounded to short-acuminate at the base, short-acuminate at the apex, coriaceous, green above, glabrous, the venation impressed, paler beneath, brownish, more or less sericeous along the veins, the venation prominent, the lateral veins stout, about 7 on each side, arcuateascending, the margin plane or subrevolute; staminate inflorescence corymbose, lax, often long-pedunculate, the calyx cupular, 3-4 mm. long, sericeous, 6-denticulate, the corolla about 1.8 cm. long, the tube retrorse-sericeous, the lobes lanceolate, about as long as the tube; anthers 7 mm. long; pistillate inflorescence capitate or corymbose, few-flowered, longor short-pedunculate, the calyx and hypanthium 3-4 mm. long, the corolla about 1 cm. long; fruit oval or obovoid, 1.2-1.5 cm. long, sparsely sericeous; seeds compressed, irregularly angulate, about 3 mm. long, reddish-brown, lustrous, striolate.
Type locality: Near Cumanacoa, Venezuela. Distribution: Panama to the Guianas; Cuba.