Guatteria crassipes R.E.Fr.

Maas, P. J. M., Westra, L. Y. T., Guerrero, S. Arias, Lobão, A. Q., Scharf, U., Zamora, N. A. & Erkens, R. H. J., 2015, Confronting a morphological nightmare: revision of the Neotropical genus Guatteria (Annonaceae), Blumea 60 (1), pp. 1-219 : 63-64

41. Guatteria crassipes R.E.Fr. — Fig. 29; Map 11

Guatteria crassipes R.E.Fr. (1939) 518, f. 34c. — Type: Pittier 902 (holo US 3 sheets; iso S fragment), Colombia, Valle del Cauca, hills of Miraflores above Palmira , Central Cordillera , 1200–1600 m, Jan. 1906.

Guatteria petiolata R.E.Fr. (1939) 518,f. 34d,e, syn.nov. — Type: Lawrance 307 (holo F; iso BM, F, G, GH, K, MO, NY, U), Colombia, Boyacá, Region of Mt Chapon , 100 miles NW of Bogotá, extreme western part of Dep. Boyacá, 1067 m (‘3500 ft’), 11 July 1932.

Guatteria sp. 6 Chatrou et al. (1997) 110.

Tree 5–20 m tall, 10–40 cm diam; young twigs sparsely covered with appressed, white hairs, soon glabrous. Leaves: petiole 8–25 mm long, 2–4 mm diam, winged; lamina narrowly obovate to obovate, rarely elliptic, 18–47 by 7–16 cm (leaf index 2–3.1), coriaceous, densely to sparsely verruculose below at the base, rarely not verruculose, shiny, grey to greyish green to brown above, dull, pale brown or green below, glabrous above, rather densely to sparsely covered with appressed, brown hairs to glabrous below, base long-attenuate, apex obtuse to acuminate (acumen 5–15 mm long), primary vein impressed to flat above, often keeled below, secondary veins distinct, 14–20 on either side of primary vein, slightly impressed to raised above, smallest distance between loops and margin 2–4 mm, tertiary veins slightly raised above, reticulate to percurrent. Flowers in 1–3-flowered inflorescences in axils of the leaves or on leafless branchlets; flowering and fruiting pedicels 22–35 mm long, 1–5 mm diam, sparsely to rather densely covered with appressed, brown hairs, articulated at 0.2–0.4 from the base, bracts 4–7, soon falling, uppermost bract (in young bud) broadly elliptic, c. 2.5 mm long; flower buds broadly to depressed ovoid; sepals basally connate or free, broadly ovate-triangular, 5–9 by 5–8 mm, densely to rather densely covered with appressed, brown hairs; petals pale yellow or green in vivo, broadly ovate to ovate, 9– 20 by 9 –15 mm, outer side densely covered with appressed, brown hairs; stamens c. 2 mm long, connective shield papillate. Monocarps 20–40, green or reddish green, maturing purple or purplish black in vivo, black in sicco, ellipsoid, 11– 20 by 4–10 mm, sparsely covered with appressed, brown hairs, soon glabrous, apex rounded to apiculate (apiculum 0.2–0.8 mm long), wall 0.2–1 mm thick, stipes 4–11 by 1–3 mm. Seed ellipsoid, 10–14 by 5–7 mm, reddish brown to brown, rugose, raphe not distinct from rest of seed.

Distribution — Colombia (Antioquia, Boyacá, Chocó, Nariño, Tolima, Valle del Cauca), Western Ecuador (Carchi, Cotopaxi, Pichincha).

Habitat & Ecology — In premontane or montane cloud for- est, along the margin of the rivers and roads. At elevations of 1200–2400 m. Flowering: throughout the year; fruiting: January, February, June, August, September, December.

Vernacular names — Colombia: Cargamarillo (Mondragón 87, Restrepo & Mondragón 261). Ecuador: Cargadera negra (Tipaz et al. 1725).

Notes — Guatteria crassipes is well recognizable by a combination of coriaceous narrowly obovate to obovate leaves with a long-attenuate base.

Some material collected in the Ecuadorian state of Carchi (Freire-Fierro 2614, Tipaz et al. 1725, Rubio et al. 2199) is aberrant in having verruculae all over the lower side of the lamina, thicker petioles (up to c. 10 mm diam) and fruiting pedicels (up to c. 8 mm diam).