Cores e Aromas 283
Pera glabrata
(Schott) Poepp.
ex Baill.
“...Arbres de l’Amérique tropicale, à feuilles alter-
nes, simples, entières, non stipulées, penninerves,
réticulées, ou glabres et lisses, ou fi nement pubes-
centes, ou ponctuées. ... Étamines au nombre de 2-6
(ou plus), unies inférieurement dans une étendue
peu considérable. ... S. glabrata Mart. (herb. fl. Bras.,
n.841. – Id. Pera glabrata Coll. Popp., n.2497...)
Henri Ernest Baillon, 1858
“foliis supra glabris, subtus sparse lepidotis demum
glabratis, lepidibus longiuscule multiradiantibus;
involucris lepidotis utriusque sexus globosis v. apertis
ellipsoideis, femineis 1-4-nis, masculis fasciculatis,
bracteis masc. lanceolatis; fl oribus masc. 3 tetran-
dris, fi lamentis valde abbreviatis; ovariis glabris, stig-
matibus breviter stipitatis 3-lobis subasperis; capsulis
pergamaceo-leptodermeis majusculis non lepidotis
apice non umbilicatis...
...ARBOR altitudine varia, obscure tincta, fusces-
cens v. fusca. RAMI ramulique subgraciles, illi teretes,
hi superne praesertium nonnihil angulosi, superne
densius, caeterum laxiuscule foliosi. PETIOLI 5-10
mm. longi, cum costae facie inferiore plus minusve
crebre lepidoti. LIMBUS foliorum 5-12 cm. longus, 2
½ -6 cm. latus, oblongo-obovatus v. etiam lanceo-
lato-obovatus, rarius ellipticus v.... rarius olivaceus,
nonnihil nitidus, minus tamen quam in P. ferruginea,
subtus rufescens v. interdum purpurascenti-fuscus,
junior in costa subtus dense lepidotus, in pagina
inferiore primum subcrebre demum sparse lepidotus
v. saepe demum glabratus, persistentia lepidum
subinde in foliis ejusdem speciminis varians. Limbus
evolutus nunc tenuius nunc rigidius subcoriaceus.
INVOLUCRA utriusque sexus aperientia circiter 3 ½
mm. lata, globosa, saepe obliqua, viva albida, grate
odorata, mascula 3-fl ora, feminea 4-fl ora. CAPSULAE
globoso-ellipsoideae, 10-11 mm, longae, 9 mm. latae,
6-costatae, costae 3 cum reliquis alternantes magis
prominentes, apex haud umbilicatus, basis acutiuscu-
la, superfi cies caeterum plicato-venosa; endocarpium
duplo tenuius quam in P. obovata. SEMINA 5 mm.
longa, atro-fusca, nitidissima.
Habitat in silvaticis siccis arenosis prope Rio de
Janeiro.....”
Carolus Fridericus Philippus de Martius, Augustus
Guilielmus Eichler & Ignatius Urban, 1874 Prancha representativa de Representative board of Pera glabrataPera glabrata Martius & Eichler, 1874
