Description

Description FRUIT. Laterally compressed, black when dry, elliptical. Epicarp glabrous. Mesocarp ca 190 µm thick when dry. Calyx persistent. Length 15 – 20 mm, width 6.0 – 10.4 mm, thickness ca 6.1 mm. ENDOCARP. Cream, bilaterally symmetrical, unilocular, single-seeded, elliptical in lateral view, triangular or pyriform in transverse section, length ca 14.5 mm, width ca 8.1 mm, thickness ca 5.9 mm. Large channel present on dorsal side, ca 2 mm wide, mirrored by a keel on ventral side. Apex and base slightly asymmetrical in lateral view. Outer surface of the endocarp rugose-granulate, homogeneous. Vasculature of the endocarp free; primary vascular bundle positioned outside the endocarp wall. Endocarp wall 300 – 320 µm thick. Endocarp wall with sclerotic cells, with two cell layers: outermost layer with 6 – 8 rows of anticlinally oriented to isodiametric cells, cells 27.4 – 38.4 µm in width; innermost layer with 1 - 5 rows of periclinally oriented cells, cells 23.8 – 35.2 µm width, cells tunnel-shaped (very elongate cells).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Tracheophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Metteniusales

Family: Metteniusaceae

Genus: Dendrobangia

Species: Dendrobangia boliviana Rusby