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Meliosma cordata is a species of plant in the Sabiaceae family. It is endemic to Panama.[1]

Meliosma cordata
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Sabiaceae
Genus: Meliosma
Species:
M. cordata
Binomial name
Meliosma cordata
A.H.Gentry
Common Meliosma Cordata plant
Common Meliosma Cordata plant

General Information


The tree is 3-6 meters tall, with branchlets covered with fine hairs that grows into large scattered pale lenticels.

The leaves of this plant are usually about 5-20 cm long, and 2–8.5 cm wide


Description


As a whole this plant is shallowly cordate at the base, chartaceous, entire or with a few coarse teeth near the apex, drying dark above, olive brown with darker brown main veins below, the midvein impressed above and raised below.

The lateral veins plane above and prominent below, the tertiary venation prominulous below, densely minutely punctate above, glabrous except for a few trichomes along the main veins


References


  1. Mitré, M. (1998). "Meliosma cordata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998: e.T32674A9722329. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32674A9722329.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.





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