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(Last Modified On 3/20/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/20/2013)
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Species
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Acalypha diversifolia Jacquin
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Hort. Schoenbr. 2: 63, t. 244, 1797.
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Synonym
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Acalypha leptostachya H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Sp. PI. 2: 96, 1817. Acalypha panamensis KI. in Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald 101, 1853. Acalypha leptostachya y carpinifolia Muell.-Arg., Linnaea 34: 35, 1865. Acalypha diversifolia fi leptostachya (H.B.K.) Muell.-Arg. in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 854, 1866. Acalypha diversifolia y carpinifolia (Muell.-Arg) Muell.-Arg., loc. cit.
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Description
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hrub 2-4 m high; monoecious; stems glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Leaves chartaceous; petioles 0.5-2 cm long; stipules lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, sub- indurate, distinctly convex at base, glabrate, (2.5-)4-8 mm long; blades elliptic to ovate- or obovate-lanceolate, (5-)8-15 cm long, (2-)2.5-6(-8) cm broad, ? glabrate except along the veins and minutely pustulate, pinnately veined (veins ca 5-7 on a side), the base narrowed, obtuse or subcordate, the margins crenate- serrate (teeth ca 20-40 on a side), the teeth sometimes callose, the apex abruptly acuminate. Inflorescences axillary, spicate; spikes sessile, bisexual, with 1 or 2 up to 6 9 bracts at the base, or entirely c; c spikes (or parts of spikes) ca 3-8 cm long, loosely to densely flowered, 1.5-4 mm thick. Pistillate flowers sessile, 2-3 per bract; bracts more or less ovate, ca 3-4.5 mm long and broad, shallowly 6-8-toothed (typically with 1 large central acute lobe and 2 or 3 much smaller lateral teeth), nearly or quite glabrous, foliaceous in fruit; ovary densely hispidulous-muriculate, the styles free, erect, slightly hispidulous at base, ca 1.5-2 mm long, divided in the distal half into a number of slender lobes. Capsules verruculose-hispidulous, 2.2-2.3 mm diam; seeds ellipsoidal, indistinctly beaked, grayish, nearly smooth (minutely foveolate), ca 1.2-1.5 mm long, the caruncle not well-defined.
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Distribution
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Common in thickets or montane rain-forest, southern Mexico to Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Cooper & Slater 114 (A, GH, NY, US), 1977 (GH), Dunlap 236 (F, US); vie of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 1041 (MO); id., Old Bank I, von Wedel 1993 (GH, MO); id., Water Valley, von Wedel 935 (GH, MO), 958 (GH, MO), 1587 (GH, MO). CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado I, Elmore X7 (GH, US), Miller 2072 (MO), Shattuck 22 (MO), 311 (F), 733 (F, MO, US), 842 (F, MO, US), 1141 (F), Standley 40836 (US), Woodworth & Vestal 325 (A, MO); Chagres, Fendler 281 (GH, MO, US); Chiva-Chiva Trail, Maxon & Harvey 6509 (US); Darien, Macbride 2718 (F, MO, US), Standley 31599 (US), 31618 (US); El Paraiso, Pittier 2528 (US); Empire to Mandinga, Piper 5458 (GH, US), 5516 (NY, US); Fort Randolph, Standley 28713 (US); 29851 (US); Fort San Lorenzo, Tyson & Blum 3684 (MO); Fort Sherman, Standley 30954 (US), 31000 (US), 31105 (US); vie of Frijoles, Allen 920 (MO), Maxon 4702 (NY, US), Piper 5781 (GH, US), Standley 27561 (US); nr Frijoles, Rio Agua Salud, Piper 5864 (US); Galena Point, Blum & Dwyer 2148 (MO), 2149 (MO); Gamboa, Standley 28394 (US); betw Gatun and Fort Sherman, Johnston 1729 (GH, MO); Gatun, Hayes s.n. (GH), Bro. Heriberto 111 (GH, NY), Standley 27289 (US); nr Gorgona, Maxon 4743 (US); Juan Mina, Piper 5693 (US); Las Cascadas Plantation, Standley 25742 (US), 29595 (US), 29642 (US); Obispo, Standley 31676 (US); Old Fort San Lorenzo, Piper 5972 (US); Rio Grande, nr Culebra, Pittier 2528 (GH, NY, US); Rio Indio de Gatun, Pittier 2811 (GH, NY, US); Rio Paraiso, Standley 29888 (US); Rio Providencia, 12 mi S of Colon, Tyson & Blum 3943 (MO). CHIRIQUI: Peninsula de Burica, vie of San Bartolome, Woodson & Schery 920 (MO, NY). COCLE: El Valle de Anton, Allen 1668 (MO), Bro. Maurice 775 (US), Miller 1824 (MO, US). DARIEN: vic of Cana, Williams 954 (US); Cerro Piriaque, Tyson et al. 3819 (MO); vie of Pinogana, Pittier 6550 (US); betw Pinogana and Yavisa, Allen 263 (MO). HERRERA: vic of Ocu, Rio Pasoancho, Stern et al. 1732 (MO). LOS SANTOS: Quebrada Bejuco, 16 m S of Macaracas, Tyson et al. 2911 (MO); Quebrada Ocho Paso, Stern et al. 1823 (MO); 11 mi N of Tonosi, Tyson et al. 2983 (MO). PANAMA: Cermefio., Dwyer & Robyns 94 (MO), 126 (MO); Cerro Campana, Blum & Miller 2293 (MO); Rio Tapia, Standley 28229 (US), 30689 (US), VERAGUAS: Canazas, Tyson 3629 (MO).
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