Statut pour la Guyane française
Molino, J.-F., Sabatier, D., Prévost, M.-F., Frame, D., Gonzalez, S. & Bilot-Guérin, V. 2009. Etablissement d'une liste des espèces d'arbres de la Guyane Française - Rapport final. Ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche, IRD, UMR AMAP - Herbier de Guyane, Cayenne-Montpellier. 59 pp. [GF = ]

 

Statut pour la Guyane française
Ter Steege, H., Vaessen, R. W., Cárdenas-López, D., Sabatier, D., Antonelli, A., De Oliveira, S. M., Pitman, N. C. A., Møller Jørgensen, P. & Salomão, R. P. 2016. The discovery of the Amazonian tree flora with an updated checklist of all known tree taxa. Scientific Reports, 6. [GF = ]

 

Statut pour la Guyane française
Molino, J.-F., Sabatier, D., Grenand, P., Engel, J., Frame, D., Delprete, P. G., Fleury, M., Odonne, G., Davy, D., Lucas, E. J. & Martin, C. A. 2022. An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature. Adansonia, 44(26): 345-903. [GF = N]

 

Date de publication : Fieldiana, Bot., 29(8): 492-493. 1963.

Distribution : Guyana, Suriname, Guyane française. Des populations de Guyana vénézuélienne (T.F. Amazonas) et d'Equateur (Sierra del Condor) ont récemment été rapprochées du taxon guyanais (Grifo in Berry et al. 2003, GBIF).

Taxonomie : This extraordinary species can hardly be referred to any genus except Myrcianthes, but it is unique in that genus by virtue of its very large flowers and fruits and its trilocular ovary (McVaugh 1963).

Type : Suriname, Tafelberg, near summit, margin of North Ridge Creek, frequent in mixed high forest, 08/09/1944, boutons et fleurs. Tree 15 m. high, 30 cm. diam.; wood dense, hard; flowers white. B. Maguire 24657 (HT: MICH1109538; IT: F0065601F, NY00405497, NY00405498, U0005165, U0005166, U0294281 [wood sample] US00512681).
Suriname, Tafelberg, 5 km au NE de la Savanna No. 2, mixed high forest, 1850 ft., 13/09/1944, vieilles fleurs. B. Maguire 24711 (PT: MICH).
Guyana, Kaieteur Plateau, Kaieteur Falls to Mure-Mure Savanna, savanna and savanna forest, 1400 ft., 12/03/1962, fruits, R.S. Cowan & T.R. Soderstrom 2147 (PT: MICH).