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Lauraceae taxonomy
Note on Classification
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Ocotea barbatula Lundell
Nomenclature
Species:
Ocotea barbatula Lundell
Usage:
accepted
Reference:
Reference for current status:
van der Werff, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 89: 438. 2002.
unprocessed publication data:
Wrightia 5: 336. 1977.
Original type data:
Guatemala: Dept. Baja Verapaz, Union Barrios, in high forest on top of hill, northwest of km. 159 of Coban Road, June 12, 1975, C. L. Lundell & Elias Contreras 19444 (LL, type), tree, 50 ft. high, 8 in. diam., flowers yellow-green; same locality, east of km. 154 of Coban Road, June 7, 1975, Lundell & contreras 19387 (LL), small tree, 25 fr. high, 3 in. diam., flowers greenish.
Fruiting collections from the same general locality, Lundell & Contreras 19202 (LL), 19213 (LL), 19223 (LL), bave narrowly obconical pedicels up to 8 mm. long, thin shallow cupules 8-9 mm. in diameter, and black ellipsoid fruits 1.2-1.8 cm. long, rounded or truncate-rounded at apex. Also, Lundell & Contreras 19608 (LL), in flower, is referable here.
Additional type data:
Guatemala, Baja Verapaz, Unión Barrios, NW of km 159 of Cobán road, 12 Jun 1975: Lundell & Contreras 19444 (Holotype TEX, Isotype HBG, MO!). Paratypes: Guatemala, Baja Verapaz, Unión Barrios, km 154 of Cobán road, 07 Jun 1975: Lundell & Contreras 19387 (HBG, TEX); same data, Unión Barrios region: Lundell & Contreras 19202 (TEX); same data, Lundell & Contreras 19213 (HBG, TEX); Lundell & Contreras 19223 (HBG, TEX); Guatemala, Baja Verapaz: Lundell & Contreras 19608 (HBG, TEX).
Miscellaneous information:
van der Werff (2002) did not see the holotype
URL of protologue:
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/15467#page/352/mode/1up