From Plant Press, Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2000.
Pentaplaris huaoranica Dorr & C. Bayer and P. davidsmithii Dorr & C. Bayer
Until recently, Pentaplaris was known from a single collection made in Costa Rica. A new emphasis on collecting all trees encountered in forest plots of fixed dimensions led to the discovery of two new species in South America; P. huaoranica Dorr & C. Bayer (figs. A, B) and P. davidsmithii Dorr & C. Bayer (figs. C-E). All three species are very large trees (up to 50 m tall) and probably would not have been collected casually. Pentaplaris was placed in Tiliaceae, but morphological, palynological, and molecular evidence suggest that it is more closely related to what had traditionally been considered Malvaceae and Bombacaceae. This was one of four plates published in a synopsis of the genus (Brittonia 51: 134-148. 1999).
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