(Last Modified On 7/24/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/24/2013)
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Habit
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shrub
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Note
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This little collected and poorly understood species is known from a few collections made in central Costa Rica and in eastern Panama.
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Distribution
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central Costa Rica and in eastern Panama.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: Cerro Tacarcuna massif on westernmost ridge and Pico Tacarcuna, 1650-1800 m, Gentry et al. 16914 (NY).
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Species
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Sphyrospermum standleyi A. C. Smith
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PlaceOfPublication
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Brittonia 1: 210. 1933.
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Note
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TYPE: Costa Rica: Cartago; near Orosi, Standley 39622 (US, holotype, not seen; photos DUKE, NY).
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Description
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Straggly, epiphytic or terrestrial shrub 4-6(10) dm tall with subrugose and cinereous branchlets. Leaves subcoriaceous, ovate to lance ovate, 4.5-6 cm long, 2-2.8 cm wide, basally rounded or obtuse, apically obtuse, entire, either 5-nerved from the base or 5-plinerved, the midvein and secondary nerves flush above slightly impressed and elevated beneath, the veinlets obscure or slightly raised beneath; petioles subterete, 1.5-2 mm long. Inflorescence of axillary or cauliflorous, solitary or paired flowers; pedicels 7-15 mm long, swollen distally. Flowers with the hypanthium campanulate, strigillose with dark trichomes 0.1 mm long but neither pilose nor puberulent, slightly 4-angled, 1-1.5 mm long, 1.5 mm in diameter, the calyx limb suberect, 0.8 mm long including the lobes, the lobes 4, apiculate; corolla membranaceous, short cylindrical, 2-2.3 mm long, 1 mm in diameter, the corolla lobes 4, deltoid, acute, ca. 0.3 mm long; stamens 4, slightly shorter than the corolla, the filaments stramineous, ca. 1.2 mm long, the anthers membranaceous, ca. 1 mm long, the tubules as long as the anther sacs. Berry white, subglobose, 3-5 mm in diameter.
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