Author:
Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-652.17.__
Peridiscus lucidus
Genus: 1 species.
Region: Venezuela, northern Brazil.
Habitat: evergreen, sometimes riverine forests.
Botany
Tree.
Leaves: glabrous.
Inflorescence: elongated racemes. Flowers: 4 to 6 pale green to yellow or white sepals; stamens are inserted outside the lobulate disc; ovary is glabrous, partly sunken in the disc.
Fruit: subglobose; greenish; with a single seed.
Taxonomy
Peridiscus was originally described by Bentham and Hooker in 1862. The taxonomic history of Peridiscus and of Peridiscaceae is complex, though it was resolved by molecular phylogenetic analysis.