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(Last Modified On 11/26/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/26/2012)
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Species
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BAUHINIA OBOVATA Blake
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Wash. Acad. 14:286. 1924.
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Synonym
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Schnella obovata (Blake) Britt. & Rose, in N. Am. Fl. 23:207. 1930.
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Description
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Unarmed vine, branchlets rufous-puberulous, soon glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate, up to 8 cm. long and as broad or broader, appressed-pubescent below, gla- brous above, subcoriaceous, prominently 9- to 11-nerved, subcordate, bilobed for about 1/3 their length, with a minute apicule at base of cleft, lobes lanceolate, shortly acuminate-tipped, tips incurved; petioles up to 4 cm. long, pubescent, somewhat rugose-calloused apically and basally, with a prominent callus at insertion of leaf. Inflorescence racemose, dense, many-flowered, rufid-puberulous, up to 8 cm. long; bracts obovate, about 4 mm. long. Flowers with bibracteate pedicels 6-9 mm. long; calyx campanulate, densely pubescent, up to 10 mm. long, teeth obovate, about 3.5 mm. long; petals obovate, clawed, rufous-pilose without, about 12 mm. long; antheriferous stamens 10, unequal; filaments glabrous; ovary sessile, densely rufous-pilose; stigma small, oblique.
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Distribution
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Panama.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: Sambu' River, Pittier 5568.
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