Goethalsia meiantha

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Goethalsia meiantha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Grewioideae
Genus: Goethalsia
Pittier 1914[2]
Species:
G. meiantha
Binomial name
Goethalsia meiantha
Synonyms
  • Goethalsia isthmica Pittier
  • Luehea meiantha Donn.Sm.

Goethalsia is a

monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.[3] It only contains one species, Goethalsia meiantha (Donn.Sm.) Burret[4] It is within the Grewioideae subfamily.[5]

Description

Goethalsia meiantha is a fast growing,[6] tree reaching to 15–40 m (49–131 ft) in height.[6][7][8] It is buttressed at the base,[6][7] and has thin bark which whitish or pale,[6][7] and smooth.[8] The trunk can be up to 40 cm (16 in) in diameter and straight.[6][8] Inside, the trunk is fibrous material, sometimes hanging in strips.[6] The tree branches are coffee-coloured, with numerous whitish lenticules (lens-shaped, porous tissue). Young branches have sparse simple hairs among a dense coat of short fasciculate (in clusters or bunckes) hairs.[7]

The leaves are alternate arranged and ranked along the twigs.

venation is parallel.[7]

It blooms between June and September,

pubescence (soft down on the leaves).[7] The calyx and corolla (petals of a flower) are 5-merous. The sepals are lanceolate, shortly connate (cone shaped) at the base, and 10 mm long. They are villous (covered with long, soft, straight hairs), with long simple hairs, on the internal surface, and tomentose (dense covering of short, matted hairs), with fine, stellate, deciduous, hairs, on the outer surface. They are yellow on the inner surface and green on the outer surface. The petals are also yellow. They are oblong or obovate, about 4 mm long and densely villous on the claw of the petal. The remainder of the petal is pappillose (has many small fleshy projections), and is scattered with long stellate hairs.[7] Their base bears long oblong nectarial glands.[7][9]

The flowers are

androecium and gynoecium of a flower).[7][9]
It is surmounted by a villous urceolus (flask-shaped body) which is about 2 mm in diameter, which surrounds the base of the stamens.
anthers.[7] The ovary is sessile (attached without a stalk) on the androgynophore.[7] It has 3 or 4 locules (chambers), each containing 4 ovules.[7][9] There is a simple, single, filiform (thread-like) style, with an indistinctly 3-lobed stigma.[7][9]

It fruits from July to January.

cotyledons are flat and leaf-like.[7] Few seeds are viable, because only one of the three joined fruits has an embryo.[8]

Taxonomy

It has the common names of Guácimo blanco,[7][10][11] or jaunilama, chancho blanco, guaicimo.[6]

The genus name of Goethalsia is in honour of

anther
(the pollen-bearing part of a stamen)

The genus was first described and published in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Vol.13 on page 313 in 1914,[3] and then the species was first described and published in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem Vol.9 on page 815 in 1926.[4]

It was originally placed within the Tiliaceae family, and some sources still class it within that family. It was then placed in the Flacourtiaceae family, before that was dismantled in 1975. It was then placed within the family of Malvaceae alongside Luehea Willd.. DNA sequencing then further narrowed down its origin and placed it among the grewioids".[7]

It has a close relationship with Colona Cav. (also within the subfamily Grewioideae) but with enough differences such as in the epicalyx to make it a different genus.[9]

Range and habitat

Map of South America and Central America showing where the tree Goethalsia meiantha is found.

It is native range is the

Panamá.[4]

It is very common to the second-growth forests in Costa Rica,[14][15] and other forests in humid regions.[7]

Goethalsia meiantha of the most common trees in the Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica region and it also grows in La Selva Biological Station.[16]

It is also known as a pioneer tree.[17]

Habitat

It is found growing in clay-like soils,[8] in moist to very wet lowland in open sites. It is also found at the edges of forest and in light gaps (within a forest).[6] The tree grows at elevations from 0–900 m (0–2,953 ft) in areas where annual rainfall is about 4000 mm and the average temperature is 26°C.[8][6]

Uses

It has low to moderate

timber value,[7][14] The wood is white when green, it is classified as light (with a specific gravity is 0.35) and soft,[7] and it also dries quickly without the appearance of major defects.[8]
It is deemed easy to work and preserve, and it can be finished well, but it has a low resistance to biodegrading organisms (i.e. woodworm, etc.). It is often used for making fenceposts, handles for light tools, boxes, cases,
broomsticks and roof boards and in interior and external construction.[8] The species ranks second in demand in the match industry (within South America), because it is very abundant and grows fast.[8]

It also has a thick fibrous bark which can be torn into long strips and is used in the manufacture of local handicrafts.[7]

It has been evaluated for an early species selected for tropical reforestation.[18]

The fruit can be collected between February and April and also in October. The fruits can then be collected directly from the tree, when they start to turn dark brown. They are then spread over the ground to dry and then can be planted.[8]

Cultivation

It can be affected by fungal species, such as Diaporthe.[19]

Nymphs of Cicada species of Zammara smaragdina burrow into the earth beside the roots of the tree.[15][20] They eat the seeds but don't seem to affect the tree populations.[15]

References

  1. ^ Max Burret, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 9: 815 (1926)
  2. ^ Henri François Pittier, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 13: 313 (1914)
  3. ^ a b "Goethalsia Pittier | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "Goethalsia meiantha (Donn.Sm.) Burret | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  5. S2CID 86578401
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  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Margaret Gargiullo A Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica (2008), p. 411, at Google Books
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai Hinsley, Stewart Robert. "Malvaceae Info: The Goethalsia Page". www.malvaceae.info. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r J.A. Vozzo (Editor), United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Tropical Tree Seed Manual (2002), p. 479, at Google Books
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Klaus Kubitzki and Clemens Bayer (Editors) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants -Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales and Non-betalain Carypophyllales (2013), p. PA250, at Google Books
  10. ^ a b E.W. Schinkel Natural Forest on Farms in the Northern Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica (1994), p. 68, at Google Books
  11. ^ H. Kloosterman, J.S.A. Slijkhuis and W.G. Wielemaker Exploratory Survey in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica, Contribution of the Land Group (1986), p. 12, at Google Books
  12. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5
    . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  13. ^ Umberto Quattrocchi CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms Synonyms, and Etymology Vol III M-Q (1947), p. 1644, at Google Books
  14. ^ a b Manuel R. Guariguata Ecology and Management of Tropical Secondary Forest: Science, People, and Policy (1998), p. 177, at Google Books
  15. ^ a b c Allen M. Young Population Biology of Tropical Insects (2012), p. 52, at Google Books
  16. ^ Lucinda A. McDade, Kamaljit S. Bawa, Henry A. Hespenheide, Gary S. Hartshorn (Editors) La Selva: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Rain Forest (1994), p. 76, at Google Books
  17. ^ Ulrich Lüttge Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants (2013), p. 86, at Google Books
  18. doi:10.1016/0378-1127(95)03649-0
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  19. ^ Luiz Henrique Rosa (Editor) Neotropical Endophytic Fungi: Diversity, Ecology, and Biotechnological Applications (2020), p. 117, at Google Books
  20. ^ National Research Council of Canada Journal Canadien de Zoologie, Volume 58, Issues 1-6, (1980), p. 713, at Google Books

Other sources

  • Williams, L. 1928, Studies of some tropical American woods. Tropical Woods 15:14-24

External links

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