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(Last Modified On 3/6/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/6/2013)
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Species
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LONCHOCARPUS PENINSULARIS (J. D. Sm.) Pittier
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Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 56, p1. 2, A, fig. 4. 1917.
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Synonym
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Derris peninsularis J. D. Sm., Bot. Gaz. 44: 111. 1907. Derris nicoyensis J. D. Sm., loc. cit. 111. 1907. Lonchocarpus nicoyensis (J. D. Sm.) Pittier, loc. cit. 57, pl. 2, B, fig. 5. 1917. Lonchocarpus cochleatus Pittier, Ioc. cit. 68, pl. 4, C. 1917. Lonchocarpus purpusil Brandegee, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 500. 1919. Lonchocarpus kerberi Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. 17: 322. 1921. Lonchocarpus chiapensis Lundell, Wrightia 1: 152. 1946. Lonchocarpus nicaraguensis Lundell, loc. cit. 154. 1946.
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Description
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Shrub or small tree. Leaves S- to 9-foliolate; leaflets ovate, elliptic or obovate, 4-10 cm. long, 2.5-4.5 cm. wide, acute at the base, abruptly acuminate to caudate at the apex, pellucid-punctate, glabrous above, minutely grayish-strigose beneath. Racemes axillary, 6-8 cm. long. Flowers with the calyx cupulate, 3-5 mm. long, glabrous or minutely puberulent; petals pink to dark red; vexillum suborbicular, 10 mm. long, more or less cinereous to sericeous outside especially along the veins, the margins inflexed except toward the base; wing petals oblong to somewhat fal- cate, the claw 2.5 mm. long, the blade 7 mm. long, glabrous. Legumes flattened, obliquely ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4.5-6.5 cm. long (when, rarely, 3-seeded up to 13 cm. long), coriaceous, glabrous, chiefly 1-seeded.
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Habit
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Shrub or small tree
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Distribution
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Mexico (Jalisco, Guerreo and Veracruz) to Panama.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 1180.
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