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Ceiba camba Drawert, Angulo & Catari, sp. nov. (Figures 1, 2 & 3) Type:— BOLIVIA. Santa Cruz, Provincia Obispo Santistevan, Municipio Montero: at 0.3 km E of Puente Eisenhower/Puente de la Amistad, on small dirt road ca. 0.2 km N from the Montero-Buena Vista highway (“carretera nueva a Cochabamba ”), 17º19ʹ09ʺ S, 63º19ʹ18ʺ W, 10 May 2007, M. H. Nee 55409 (holotype, here designated: USZ!, isotypes COL, CTES, K, LPB, MEXU, MO, NSW, NY, US). It differs from all species of the genus Ceiba by the combination of short and winged petiolules; calyx cylindrical to elongated-campanulate; petals distally pale pink to magenta and basally white to deep yellow; 5 lobed staminal appendages, lobes bifid, scarcely pilose to pilose and whitish, yellow to pinkish; stamens fused into staminal tube; and stigma deep red to carmine. Tree, deciduous, 20–30 m tall when mature; trunk conical, pachycaulous, usually ventricose in the basal section, up to 2 m diameter at breast height and with low buttresses; bark in juveniles green, turning gray to dark gray and often developing green striations, especially in juveniles usually covered with conoidal aculei up to 25 mm, regularly scattered and extending to the main branches; canopy generally open with erect-patent branches. Leaves alternate, palmately compound with (3–) 5 (–7) leaflets, usually the two posterior ones smaller than the anterior ones; petioles 30–150 mm long, the petiolules short, not more than 12–15 mm long, marginate-winged; leaflets 43–125 mm × 18–52 mm, with length/width (l/w) ratio about (1.4–) 2.3 (–3.1), elliptic to oblanceolate or even slightly obovate, the base attenuate to cuneate and apex acute to acuminate, pinnatinerved, the margin medially and distally dentate and usually entire at basal section, the upper surface dark green, the lower face paler. Inflorescences of few-flowered fascicles or of single flowers. Flowers stellate, 75–120 mm long when extended; peduncle 8–25 mm long; calyx 16–26 mm tall × 8–13 mm diameter, gamosepalous with 3–5 lobes, tubular ... |