Gaulettia canescens (Gleason) Sothers & Prance, comb. nov. Basionym: Parinari canescens Gleason (1931: 370), as Parinarium. Couepia canescens (Gleason) Prance (1974b: 119). Type:— VENEZUELA. Amazonas: Cerro Duida, Aguita Slope, August 1928 – April 1929, Tate 870 (holotype NY!, isotype K!). Tree to 10 m tall. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, 2–6.5 × 1.5–3.2 cm, densely brown-lanate pubescent beneath, the pubescence obscuring prominent venation with parallel secondary veins. Inflorescences racemes 1.5–3 cm long. Receptacle campanulate, 3–4 mm long. Stamens 12–16, unilateral with a few short staminodes opposite them. Fruit globose with a glabrous and verrucose epicarp. Illustration:— Prance (1998: 209). Distribution and habitat: —Endemic to the Guayana Highland of Venezuela and Guyana. In lower montane to montane slope forests from (800–) 1000–1700 m elevation. Fig. 3. Conservation status: — Gaulettia canescens is here assessed as vulnerable, VU D1 (IUCN 2001), since it occurs in higher-elevation habitats with restricted distribution. Selected specimens examined: — GUYANA. Demerara-Mahaica: track to St. Cuthbert’s Mission, 22 June 1990, McDowell et al. 1741 (NY!). VENEZUELA. Bolívar: SE facing bluffs of NW Chimantá-tepui, 21 May 1953, Steyermark 75526 (NY!). Amazonas: Sierra Parima, 18–23 May 1972, Steyermark 105936 (NY!, VEN!).
Published as part of Sothers, Cynthia, Prance, Ghillean T., Buerki, Sven, Kok, Rogier De & Chase, Mark W., 2014, Taxonomic novelties in Neotropical Chrysobalanaceae: towards a monophyletic Couepia, pp. 176-200 in Phytotaxa 172 (2) on page 183, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.172.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5142506
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