(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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Campnosperma panamensis Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Arnold Arb. 2: 111, 1920.-Fig. 3.
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Description
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Tree of large to medium size, the thick branches often with rugose and scaly bark, the young parts stellate-puberulent. Leaves short-petiolate or subsessile, ascending; blades oblong-obovate, rounded to emarginate at the apex, basally equilateral and cuneate to attenuate, stellate-pubescent beneath and also lepidote with minute brown scales, glabrous above and with scattered scales, somewhat lustrous above, 14-35 cm long, 5.5-15 cm broad, the midvein conspicuously raised beneath, the 32-52 -+- parallel secondaries pinnate, the reticulation prominulous below and prominent above. Panicles to 40 cm long, spicate, often with several primary branches arising from the main axis, with a brown stellate pubescence, occasionally with small ovate or lance-ovate bracts subtending the branches. Flowers with pedicels 0-2 mm long; calyx-lobes 4, broadly ovate, ca 0.5 mm long, stellate-pubescent; petals 4, ovate, broadly acute to rounded, 1.2-2 mm long, con- cave, glabrous, yellow; stamens 8, equal to or slightly shorter than the petals; disc tumid and conspicuous, crenate; ovary lepidote, latissimus-ovate, 1-locular, the ovule apical. Drupes triangular-ovoid, 1-1.5 cm long.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama, infrequent.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Chiriquicito Lagoon, Little s.n. (holotype A; isotype US); swamp nr Almirante, Rowlee & Stork 1001 (US); Laguna de Chiriqui, Stern & Chambers 107 (A, F, MO, US). PROVINCE UNKNOWN: S. loc., Cooper & Slater 154 (F, GH, US).
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Common
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orey
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