Trichilia monacantha Urban, Symb. Ant.

Pennington, Terence D., 2016, Systematic Treatment Of American Trichilia (Meliaceae), Phytotaxa 259 (1), pp. 18-162 : 139

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.259.1.5

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scientific name

Trichilia monacantha Urban, Symb. Ant.
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76. Trichilia monacantha Urban, Symb. Ant. View in CoL 1: 329 (1899); T. D.Penn., Fl. Neotrop. 28: 230 (1981). Type:— DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. near Santiago, yfl., Eggers 2371 (holotype, B, destroyed; lectotype, NY chosen here). Map 85

Illustration: FN 28: 226, fig. 48 (1981).

Abbreviated Description. Indumentum puberulous with simple hairs, leaves trifoliolate or digitate, leaflets 3–5, sessile, 1.8 × 0.6–2.3 × 0.9 cm, elliptic or oblanceolate, apex produced into a sharp spine, inflorescence 3–5-flowered, young flowers 5-merous, mature flowers and fruit not seen.

MAP 85. Distribution of Trichilia monacantha Urb. Total distribution to 2010.

Distribution & Ecology. Still known only from the type collection in the Dominican Republic, presumably in tropical dry forest.

Additional Collections Examined. None.

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

B

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet

NY

William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden

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