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(Last Modified On 3/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/22/2013)
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Species
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Toxicodendron striatum (Ruiz & Pavon) 0. Ktze
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Rev. Gen. P1. 1: 153, 1891.-Fig. 10.
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Synonym
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Rhus striatum Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Peruv. Chil. 3: 29, pl. 252, 1802. Rhus juglandifolia Willd. ex Roemer & Schultes in L., Syst. Veg. ed. 15, 6: 649, 1820. Rhus samo Tulasne, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., ser. 3, 6: 367, 1846. Rhus juglandifolia var. samo (Tulasne) Engler in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 4: 401, 1883.
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Description
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Tree or large shrub. Leaves 4-8 jugate, the rachis 10-30 cm long, the leaflets mostly opposite, with petiolules 2-6 mm long; lamina of leaflets oblong-lanceolate to oblong or occasionally ovate-lanceolate, apically acuminate, basally unequal and broadly cuneate to rounded, 5-11 cm long, 2.5-5 cm broad, entire and often sub- revolute, glabrous or puberulent beneath on the main veins. Panicles large, erect to ? pendant, many-flowered, the branches hirtellous. Flowers apparently hermaphriditic (pistil- lode present) or 0 (stamens somewhat reduced), the pedicels 1-4.5 mm long; sepals suborbicular to ovate-oblong, apically rounded or subtruncate, ca 1 mm long; petals ovate or oblong-ovate, 2-3 mm long; anthers 1.5-2 mm long in male flowers, smaller in hermaphroditic flowers, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, basally ? cordate, the fila- ments compressed and subulate, 1.5-2 mm long in male flowers; disc flattened, not tumid, obscurely 5-10 crenulate; ovary ovoid, ca 0.8 mm long, the style less than 0.5 mm long, persistent, the stigmas minutely papillose, capitate, flattened, sub- obscure. Drupes 5-9 mm long, white, the surface of the mesocarp with conspicuous dark, longitudinal streaks; seed filling the lumen of the drupe, 5-8 mm broad.
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Habit
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Tree or large shrub
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Distribution
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Vera Cruz, Mexico to Brazil and Peru.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: forests around El Boquete, Pittier 3029 (US); vic of Callejon Seco, Volcan de Chiriqui, Woodson & Schery 483 (MO, US).
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