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Anaxagorea acuminata (Dunal) A. DC., Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 5: 211. 1832. ---Xylopia acuminata Dunal, Monogr. Anonac. 122, t. 16. 1817. ---Majagua.
Shrub or tree to 20 m; leaves elliptic, ovate, or obovate, 6--36 × 2--12 cm, brown-puberulous on the lower surface, especially near the base; secondary veins 9--20 per side; inflorescence usually cauliflorous, the flowers brownish to yellowish, creamy with pink basally within, or pale yellow with ma-roon at base. Evergreen lowland forests, 50--200 m; Amazonas (Río Cataniapo, Río Ocamo, Río Padamo). Venezuelan Coastal Cordillera; Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, northern Brazil. Fig. 344.
This species is very similar to Anaxagorea dolichocarpa and is difficult to distinguish from it. A water-based drink with scrapings from the inner bark has been used in Amazonian Venezuela to aid women in conceiving babies when they have been previously infertile.
Anaxagorea angustifolia Timmerman, Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. C 87: 298. 1984.
Shrub or tree to 7 m; leaves narrowly elliptic, 6--16 × 1.5--3.5 cm, lower surface sparsely puberulous, reddish black; secondary veins 9--16 per side; flowers yellowish; monocarps 2.2--2.3 cm long, yellow to red. Evergreen lowland forests, ca. 100 m; Amazonas (near San Carlos de Río Negro). Brazil (Amazonas: upper Rio Negro basin).
Anaxagorea brachycarpa R.E. Fr., Acta Horti Berg. 12: 14, fig. 1a--c. 1934. ---Majagua anón, Majagua dura, Majagua de barra.
Tree or shrub, 3--15 m; leaves narrowly elliptic to obovate, 9--28 × 2--9 cm, lower surface dark red-puberulous to glabrescent; flowers yellowish or greenish; monocarps 2--3 cm long, yellow to green with reddish tinge. Evergreen lowland and submontane forests, 100--400 m; Amazonas (near Cerro Yapacana, Río Casiquiare, near San Carlos de Río Negro). Amazonian Peru and Brazil. Fig. 345.
Anaxagorea brevipes Benth., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 8. 1853. ---Majagua, Weur-ná (Yekwana).
Tree or shrub, 3--10(--25) m; leaves narrowly elliptic to obovate, 8--35 × 3--10 cm, the lower surface sparsely reddish puberulous to glabrescent; flowers tawny, yellowish, or cream-colored marked with reddish without and lavender within; monocarps 2--3.6 cm long, yellow with red apically, red or dark purple basally. Evergreen lowland, riparian, and montane forests, 100--1300 m; Bolívar (Río Canaracuni, Río Erebato, Río Nichare basin), Amazonas (base of Cerro Duida, Cerro Huachamacari, Río Cataniapo, Río Sipapo, lower Río Ventuari). Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Amazonian Brazil. Fig. 346.
The strong bark fiber is commonly used as head straps for carrying cargo.
Anaxagorea dolichocarpa Sprague & Sandwith, Bull. Misc. Inform. 1930: 475. 1930. ---Baquera-aba (Warao), Cará-pi-pok (Arekuna), Majagua, Pequeña, Yarayara negra.
Tree or shrub 5--15 m; leaves narrowly elliptic, ovate, or obovate, 9--45 × 3--16 cm, the lower surface ferrugineous-puberulous; inflorescence mainly cauliflorous, the flowers ferrugineous-brown without, creamy yellow within, with a fragrance like overripe bananas; monocarps 2.5--4.7 cm long, green, yellow, brown, or red, densely to sparsely ferrugineous-puberulous or glabrescent. Evergreen lowland and lower montane forests, ca. 50--800 m; Delta Amacuro (Río Amacuro, Sacupana, Serranía de Imataca), Bolívar (widespread), Amazonas (near Gavilán, Sierra Parima). Sucre; Costa Rica, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia. Fig. 348.
This is a common understory tree in the Venezuelan Guayana and elsewhere throughout its range; it is most easily confused with Anaxagorea acuminata.
Anaxagorea gigantophylla R.E. Fr., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 9: 330. 1957.
Tree 4--12 m; leaves narrowly elliptic, 25--75 × 7--25 cm, ferrugineous-puberulous to glabrescent on lower surface, the base rounded or broadly obtuse; flowers white, creamy, or pale yellow with tawny hairs, or brown without and yellow within; monocarps 3--3.5 cm long, densely brown-ferrugineous pubescent. Evergreen lowland forests, 100--800 m; Amazonas (Río Mawarinuma, Río Pasimoni, Río Yat&;a, Sierra Parima). Brazil (Amazonas: near Serra da Neblina). Fig. 347.
Anaxagorea petiolata R.E. Fr., Lloydia 2: 179. 1939. ---Majagua.
Tree 6--15 m; leaves narrowly elliptic to obovate, 10--27 × 2.5--8.5 cm, lower surface reddish brown-puberulous; inflorescence usually cauliflorous, the flowers brownish with yellow, yellow-green, or orange-brown; monocarps 2.8--4 cm long, brown to yellow, densely or sparsely ferrugineous-puberulous. Lower montane and montane forests, 300--1300 m; Bolívar (Gran Sabana, middle Río Paragua), Amazonas (between Cerro Duida and Cerro Marahuaka, Cerro Huachamacari, Río Coro Coro west of Cerro Yutajé, Sierra Parima). Guyana, northern Brazil. Fig. 349.
The strong bark fiber is used in tying and for head straps to carry cargo.
Anaxagorea rheophytica Maas & Westra, Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. C 89: 75, figs. 1--3. 1986.
Willow-like shrub ca. 2 m; leaves narrowly elliptic or narrowly elliptic-ovate, 5--8 x 0.5--1 cm, glabrous throughout; secondary veins 7--12 per side; inflorescence 1-flowered, flowers greenish to yellowish tan; monocarps 1.5--1.8 cm long, sparsely puberulous. Along river margins near forests, 100--200 m; Amazonas (Río Mawarinuma). Endemic.
Anaxagorea rufa Timmerman, Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. C 87: 301. 1984. ---Cabari, Majagua, Majagua hoja larga, Majagua lengua de tigre.
Tree or shrub 3--10 m; leaves elliptic to obovate, 15--48 × 5--15 cm, lower surface puberulous with purplish red hairs or glabrescent; secondary veins 11--20 per side; inflorescence mainly cauliflorous, the flowers brownish, greenish, cream-colored, or yellowish without, white within; monocarps 2.5--3.2 cm long, white, yellow, or wine-colored, densely rufous-puberulous. Evergreen lowland and submontane forests, 100--400 m; Amazonas (Cerro Yapacana, Río Sipapo, near San Carlos de Río Negro, Santa Rosa de Ucata northeast of San Fernando de Atabapo, Sierra de la Neblina, Yavita). Amazonian Colombia, Peru, and Brazil.
