Lunania racemosa
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Lunania racemosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae.[1][2] It is the type species of its genus, Lunania.[3]
The plant is endemic to Jamaica in the parishes of Saint Ann, Saint Mary, and Saint Thomas in woodlands at altitudes of Template:Cvt.[4][1][5]
Lunania racemosa was first described by William Jackson Hooker in 1844.[6][7]
Description
Lunania racemosa is a tree that reaches a height of Template:Cvt. Branchlets are slender with tips that are subglabrous; older parts quickly covered with grayish cork. Leaves are ovate in shape with a short-acuminate apex and an acute tip. The base is often oblique, ranging from rounded to subcordate. They are membranaceous to chartaceous in texture, entire and glabrous, measuring Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt broad. Leaves are five-nerved from the base, with the outer pair of nerves being less obvious and shorter, while the inner ones are marked and extend nearly to the top of the lamina. These are prominent underneath, with one or two additional pairs of lateral nerves originating from the upper third of the midrib. The transverse veins partly loop with them and the outer pair of basal nerves, which are slightly raised underneath. Veinlets are rather obscure. The petiole measures Template:Cvt long. Racemes are terminal, solitary, usually forked from below, and pendulous. They are about Template:Cvt long including the peduncle (Template:Cvt). The rachis is robust (Template:Cvt in diameter), finely puberulous or subglabrous. Flowers are subdensely arranged along the rachis and chestnut-brown in color. The pedicels are subglabrous, measuring Template:Cvt long, with subtending bracts and bracteoles that are subulate, squamiform, minute, and subpersistent. The calyx splits into 2 lobes which are ovate-oblong and glabrous dorsally, membranaceous, and approximately Template:Cvt long. Stamens number six to nine, with filiform filaments that are Template:Cvt long; anthers are oblong. The disk is subglabrous, Template:Cvt high. The ovary is piriform (pear-shaped) and subglabrous, tapering to a robust style measuring Template:Cvt long; stigmas number three or four and are very short and capitellate. The fruit is depressed-obovoid and subtrigonous, brown, crowned by the style and splitting into three valves, approximately Template:Cvt in diameter. Seeds are numerous, ellipsoid, and Template:Cvt long.[1]
Conservation status
Lunania racemosa is listed as VU by the IUCN Red List. Threats include agriculture and aquaculture, logging, and habitat loss. Almost all forests in Saint Thomas Parish have been removed or severely degraded.[4]
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