Guatteria eriopoda DC.

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 : 81

61. Guatteria eriopoda DC. — Map 14

Guatteria eriopoda DC. in Dunal (1817) 130; R.E.Fr. (1939) 351, t. 19. — Type: Dombey s.n. (holo P; iso F, G, P), Peru, Huánuco, Cuchero (‘circa Cochera’).

Tree ‘3-orgyalis’; young twigs densely covered with erect to appressed, curly, white hairs to c. 1 mm long, soon glabrous. Leaves: petiole 4–6 mm long, 1–2 mm diam; lamina narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 12–25 by 4–8 cm (leaf index 3.1–3.5), chartaceous, not verruculose, dull, greyish or brownish black above, brown below, sparsely covered, to densely covered on primary vein, with mostly appressed, curly, white hairs to glabrous at last above, densely to rather densely covered with erect to appressed, curly, white hairs below, base obtuse, apex acuminate (acumen 10–20 mm long), primary vein impressed above, secondary veins distinct, 13–17 on either side of primary vein, impressed above, smallest distance between loops and margin 1–2 mm, tertiary veins flat above, reticulate. Flowers in 1–2-flowered inflorescences in axils of leaves or on leafless branchlets; pedicels 20–25 mm long, 1–1.5 mm diam, densely covered with erect, more or less curly, whitish to light brown hairs, articulated at 0.2–0.4 from the base, bracts 4–5?, soon falling, only basal ones seen, broadly elliptic(-ovate), 1.5–3 mm long; flower buds broadly ovoid; sepals free, broadly ovate-triangular, 7–8 by 7–8 mm, appressed (as far as seen in young stage), outer side densely covered with appressed to erect hairs; petals colour not recorded, elliptic to obovate, c. 16 by 9 mm, outer side densely covered with appressed to erect hairs; stamens to c. 1.5 mm long, connective shield glabrous. Monocarps and seed not seen.

Distribution — Amazonian Peru (Huánuco, Loreto).

Habitat & Ecology — Not recorded.

Vernacular names — Not recorded.

Notes — Guatteria eriopoda was placed by Fries in sect. Trichoclonia .

An incompletely known and perhaps rare species, G. eriopoda somewhat resembles the widely distributed G. ucayalina , but is distinct from it by the strikingly curly hairs. Note that the long hairs (to c. 1 mm) on the leaves tend to come off earlier than the shorter hairs thus giving the false impression of small-haired leaves (see the Poeppig specimens).