Pyrularia Michx., Fl. Bor.

Le, Chi Toan, Nguyen, Van Du, Ha, Minh Tam, Pham, Thi Bich Ha, Hoang, Tuan Phuong Nguyen, Pham, Thanh Huyen & Liu, Bing, 2024, Pyrularia: A newly recorded genus of Cervantesiaceae from Vietnam, Phytotaxa 676 (2), pp. 194-198 : 196-197

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scientific name	Pyrularia Michx., Fl. Bor.
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Pyrularia Michx., Fl. Bor. View in CoL - Amer. 2: 231. 1803. Type:— Pyrularia pubera Michx.

Pyrularia edulis (Wall.) A. DC., Prodr. 14(2): 628. 1857. ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ). Basionym: Sphaerocarya edulis Wall., Fl. Ind. (Carey & Wallich ed.) 2: 371 (-373) (1824). Type: — NEPAL, precise locality unknown, 1829, Wallich 4033 (G).

Description

Small trees, 3–5 m tall, deciduous; bark gray; without spines, but trunk has verruculose to lump and crack near the base, glabrous. Branches yellowish brown, wrinkled, glabrous. Leaf simple, alternate; petiole 7–10 mm; leaf blade obvoid, 5–13 × 3–5 cm; base symatric, margin entier, apex acuminate. Pinnately veined; midrib adaxially depressed; nerves 3–5 pairs, joined near the margin. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, proximal flowers in pedunculate umbels or cymes, distal flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual; actinomorphic; 5 merous. Perianth tube obvoid, green; calyx 5 lobed, equal, valvate, green. Stamens inserted opposite calyx lobes. Disk complete, 5-lobed, glabrous. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; style 1; stigma small, capitate. Fruit drupe; pear to obvoid, 4–6 cm, base narrowed into robust stipe, apex nearly truncate, slightly sunken in young fruits; apex with 5-lobed calyx persistent and disk enlarging to more than 4 mm in diam, and 5 brown stamens scars. Seed 1 (because the 1 ovule abortive in 1 cell); subglobose; endosperm oily.

Ecology: —Tropical humid, semi deciduous forest on medium on the high mountain, at 1000 m above sea level.

Phenology: —Flowering in March to April; fruiting in July to November.

Distribution: —Eastern Asia (from northeast India and Nepal to southwest China, and Vietnam).

Specimens examined: — VIETNAM. Lao Cai: Sapa , 15 Dec 2021, Chi Toan Le 175 ( HN), Chi Toan Le 176 ( HN), Chi Toan Le 177 ( HN), Chi Toan Le 178 ( HN) ; 23 Jun 2022, Chi Toan Le 199 ( HN), Chi Toan Le 200 ( HN), Chi Toan

Le 201 (HN). CHINA. Yunnan: Yingjiang County, 24 Sep 2015, B. Liu & Z. X. Hua 4879 ( PE) ; Xichou County, 29 Sep 2015, B. Liu & Z. X. Hua 4967 ( PE) .