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(Last Modified On 9/27/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/27/2013)
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Species
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Erythrina costaricensis M. Micheli
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bull. Herb. Boissier 2: 445. 1894.
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TYPE: Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Pittier 4804 (BR, not seen).
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Synonym
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Erythrina panamensis Standley, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 10. 1927. TYPE: Panama, Pittier 2656 (US, holotype: not seen). Erythrina colombiana Krukoff, Brittonia 3: 325. 1939. TYPE: Colombia, Lawrance 648 (US, not seen). Eerythrina costaricensis var. panamensis (Standley) Croat, Fl. B.C.I. 471. 1979.
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Description
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Trees, the branchlets often with silver mottling, smooth, occasionally gla- brous, often armed, the spines scattered. Leaves with the leaflets ovate trape- ziform, obliquely ovate to ovate elliptic, 9-22 cm long, 6-20 cm wide, narrowly acuminate at the apex, oblique, rounded or widely cuneate at the base, thin chartaceous to subcoriaceous, reticulate, often glaucous beneath, glabrous to densely puberulent, the hairs appressed and often confined to the costa and sec- ondary veins; petiolules 0.5-1.7 cm long, arachnoid villose to glabrescent; peti- oles 5-22 cm long; rachises 2-20 cm long. Inflorescences with bracts linear lan- ceolate, to 6 mm long, ca. 0.8 mm wide; bracteoles resembling smaller bracts. Flower with the calyx narrowly campanulate or tubular, 15-30 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrous or puberulent, bilabiate, the lobes evanescent or to 7 mm long, the teeth scarcely evident; standard obovate elliptic or narrowly oblong, 60-75 mm long, 12.5-16 mm wide, tapering acutely apically, ultimately obtuse, obtuse basally, the claw to 9 mm long, stiff carnose or thin coriaceous, glabrous; wing petals obovate oblong or oblong, 7-9 mm long, obtuse apically and basally, delicately petaloid, the claw indistinct; keel petals circular oblong or inequilaterally ensiform, ca. 8 mm long, 3.5-10 mm wide, briefly broad acuminate apically, oblique basally, petaloid, glabrous, the claw indistinct; staminal sheath 1-2 mm wide medially, the filaments crassate, ca. 0.8 mm wide, the odd filament often briefly united to the sheath, the anthers 3-4 mm long; ovary flat, 10-15 mm long, puberulent, fusiform, sigmatioid, to 60 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, ferruginous lanose, the stipe filamentous, the style flat basally, cylindrical subulate above, to 20 mm long. Fruit with stipes to 5 cm long, mo- niliform, 15-23 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, the style base to 5 cm long, farinose with minute deciduous hairs, some hairs persisting between the seeds, the seeds scar- let, ca. 1 cm long or longer and 0.7 cm wide.
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Trees
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Erythrina costaricensis is a species of the lowlands, occurring commonly in tropical wet and tropical moist forests.
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Distribution
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known only from Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia.
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Croat (1979) separated plants from lowland central Panama varietally from the typical Costa Rican plants, saying they, have larger leaves, more constricted pods, red instead of orange flowers, and that the Panamanian plants bloom while leafless while those from Costa Rica are reported to bloom while bearing leaves.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Potrero, Changuinola Valley, Dunlap 443 (F, US). Rio Terebe between Que- brada Huron and Quebrada Schlunjik, Kirkbride & Duke 458 (MO, SCZ). 10-15 mi inland from mouth of Changuiola River, Lewis et al. 875 (GH, MO). Water Valley, Wedel 1766 (MO). CANAL ZONE: BARRO COLORADO ISLAND: Aviles 3 (F), 45 (MO); Brown 16 (F); Croat 6286 (MO, SCZ), 6476 (F, MO), 6490 (F, MO, SCZ), 6560, 6625, 8667, 12710 (all MO); Frost 212 (F); Harvey 50 (F); Kenoyer 329 (US); Killip 39975 (US), 40036 (MO, US); Oppenheimer 67-1-17-1415 (MO); Salvoza 874 (A); Shattuck 56, 852 (both F, MO); Standley 31352, 40892, 40843 (all US); Woodworth & Vestal 311 (A, F). W end of Gattin Lake and dam, Blum & Tyson 2001 (FSU, MO, SCZ). Gamboa Pipe Line on Tropic Test Center lands 2 km S of main dirt road, Correa & Haines 484 (MO). Pipeline road within 5 mi of Gamboa gate, D'Arcy 9265 (MO). Hill C-6, Ft. Sherman, Duke 4392 (MO). Pipeline road, Folsom 1938 (MO). Rio Providencia 3 km SE of Achiote, Gentry & Nee 8657 (MO). Gattn, Goldman 1854 (US). Gatun Station, Hayes 97 (GH). Pipeline Road, Rio Agua Salud, Kennedy 1890 (MO). Rio Indio de Gattin, Maxon 4808 (US). Rio Petitpie from Ft. Sherman-Gatun Locks road, Mori & Kal- lunki 2659 (MO). Rio Mendosa above Pipeline Road, Nee 7601 (MO). Rio Providencia 7.5 km SW of Gattin Dam, 25-140 m, Nee & Gentry 8667 (MO). Between Gorgona and Gattin, Pittier 2287 (US). Quebrada Bonita, 70-80 m, Steyermark & Allen 1934 (GH, MO). Quebrada Salamanca, 70 m, Stey- ermark & Allen 16984 (GH). Quebrada Ancha, 70 m, Steyermark & Allen 16984a (MO). 6 mi N of Gamboa near Rio Frijol, Tyson 1447 (FSU, MO, SCZ). CHIRIQUf: Progreso, Cooper & Slater 10532 (F, US). San Bartolo Limite, Croat 22010 (MO, US). Quebrada Melliza 6 mi S of Puerto Armuelles, Liesner 496 (F, MO). COCLE: Cerro Pil6n, Correa 54 (MO, SCZ). La Mesa, Croat 13370 (MO). 18 km past Sardinilla on way to Nombre de Dios, 150-300 m, Croat 26126 (MO). La Mesa, 2200 ft, Dwyer 10562 (MO). 7 km N of El Cope de Veraguas, Alto Calvario, Folsom 1207 (MO). La Mesa above El Valle, Folsom & Raul, 5637 (MO). 7 km N of El Cope, 750-850 m, Folsom & Collins 6435 (MO). La Mesa N of Cerro Gaital, 2400 ft, Hammel 3848 (MO). COLON: Tres Brazos sawmill, Icacal, between Salud and Boca de Rio Indio, Howell 63 (MO). Peluca on road to Nombre de Dios, Kennedy 2776 (GH, MO). Rio Buenaventura near Portobelo, Kennedy & Gra 2248a (MO). Rio Guanche 6 km S of Portobelo, 0-10 m, Nee 7268 (MO). Quebrada Ancha 4 km E of Buena Vista, Nee 7776 (MO, US). Rio Guanche, 50 m, Sullivan 139 (MO). DARIEN: S slope of W peak of Cerro Tacarcuna, 1100- 1300 m, Gentry et al. 16880 (MO). Rio Cuasi, 0-2.5 mi S of Tres Bocas, Kirkbride & Duke 1130 (MO). Between Cana & Boca de Cupe, Stern et al. 633 (GH, MO, US). Rio Cuasi, Chepigana District, 800 ft, Terry & Terry 1413 (A, F, MO). Cand, Williams 782 (US). PANAMA: El Jefe, Duke 9398 (MO). Mountains above Torti Arriba, Folsom et al. 6594 (MO). Cerro Campana, Gentry 4906 (MO). Without other locality, Hayes (GH). Cerro Campana, Porter et al. 4280 (MO, SCZ). Cerro Campana, collector unknown, 25 Mar. 1969 (MO).
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