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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 STANDLEYI Rose
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Wash. Acad. 17:166. 1927.
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Synonym
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Schnella Standleyi (Rose) Britt. & Rose, in N. Am. Fl. 23:206. 1930.
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Description
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Large tendrilled vine, sometimes armed basally, with pubescent branchlets. Leaves broadly ovate, 3-9 cm. long and broad, prominently 9-nerved, lightly appressed-pubescent above and more heavily so below, subcordate basally, notched apically for about ?-' 2 their length, with a subulate apicule at the base of the notch, both inner and outer margins of the lobes rounded; petiole terete, pubescent, 2-4 cm. long, callused at insertion of leaf, caducous-stipulate. Inflorescence terminal or subterminal, up to 10 cm. long, pubescent, linear-bracteate. Flowers whitish, 15-17 cm. long; calyx pubescent, more or less bilabiate, subulate teeth (2 above, 3 below), about 2.5 mm. long, tube 4-6 mm. long; petals oblanceolate, up to 17 mm. long and 7 mm. wide, hirsute within basally, smaller petal maculate; fertile stamens 10, glabrous, alternate ones longer (6 mm. long) and with thicker filaments; anthers ovate, versatile; ovary setose-hirsute. Legume spatulate, 6-7 cm. long.
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Habit
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vine
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Distribution
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Panama and Costa Rica.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Miraflores Lake, P. White 269; Palo Seco, Allen 2896; Victoria Fill near Miraflores Locks, Allen I7II; without locality, Seemann 222. COCLf: Penonom6, Williams 134. PANAMA: vicinity of Pacora, Allen II25; near Panami, Standley 26776; near Punta Paitilla, Standley 26247; Taboga Island, Macbride 2800.
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Note
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This species apparently differs little from B. cuwnanensis HBK. (?B. glabra JIacq.).
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