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(Last Modified On 9/30/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/30/2013)
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Species
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Rhynchosia reticulata (Swartz) DC.
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Prodr. 2: 385. 1825.
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Synonym
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Glycine reticulata Swartz, Prodr. 105. 1788. TYPE: Jamaica, Swartz, not seen. Dolicholus kuntzei Kuntze, Rev. Gen. P1. 3(2): 61. 1898. TYPE: not seen. Dolicholus hondurensis Rose, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 10: 101. 1906. TYPE: Honduras, "Dept. Santa Barbara near San Pedro Sula," not seen. Rhynchosia hondurensis (Rose) J. D. Smith, Enum. P1. Guat. Index 8: 172. 1907. Dolicholus angulatus Standley, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 18: 107. 1916. TYPE: Panama, "between Miraflores and Pedro Miguel, Canal Zone," not seen.
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Description
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Herbaceous to suffruticose vine; stems angled to terete, villous to strigose along ridges. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets ovate to obovate, the lateral leaflets asymmetric, 2.5-6.5 cm long, 2.3-5.5 cm wide, apically acute, basally cuneate to subcordate, finely strigulose above, reticulate, strigulose and gland dotted be- neath; terminal petiolule 2.0-11.0 mm long, the lateral petiolules 1.0-2.0 mm long; petiole 2.0-4.5 cm long, angled, villous; stipels linear, 1.0-2.0 mm long; stipules lanceolate to ovate 0.3-1.0 cm long, 0.1-0.5 cm wide, caducous to per- sistent. Inflorescence shorter or longer than the leaves, 5.0-13.5 cm long, dense- ly, ca. 20-30, flowered; peduncles 1.5-2.5 cm long, pedicels ca. 3.5 mm long; bracts lanceolate, 3.0-5.0 mm long, caducous. Flowers with the calyx usually equal to or exceeding the corolla, 0.7-1.1 cm long, the lobes lanceolate, 0.5-0.9 cm long, puberulent, gland dotted; corolla yellow, 0.6-1.0 cm long, puberulent, gland dotted, the standard obovate, auriculate, 8.0-9.5 mm long, 3.0-4.0 mm wide, the claw ca. 1.0 mm long, the wing oblong, 7.5-8.0 mm long, ca. 2.0 mm wide, the claw ca. 1.0 mm long, the keel falcate, 7.5-9.0 mm long, ca. 2.0 mm wide, the claw 1.0-1.5 mm long; stamens 5.0-9.0 mm long. Fruits oblong ovate, 1.5-2.0 cm long, 0.5-0.7 cm wide, the beak 1.0-2.0 mm long, puberulent; seeds 2, ovoid, ca. 3.0 mm long, brown black, hilum ovate, ca. 1.0 mm long.
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Habit
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Herbaceous to suffruticose vine
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Distribution
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ranges from Mexico to South America including the Greater Antilles.
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Note
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It occurs in disturbed areas, moist forests, thickets, and savannas below 1,200 m. Grear (1978) delimited two varieties of R. reticulata but in Panama these varieties do not appear to be distinguishable on the basis of geography and mor- phology.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Pipeline road 2?2 mi from Gamboa gate, Croat 9385 (MO, SCZ). Gaillard highway 1 mi NW of Summit Garden, Croat 13919 (F, MO, SCZ). Pipeline road 4 mi from main gate, Croat 14100 (MO, SCZ). Without other locality, Greenman & Greenman 5135 (MO). Near Summit Garden, Hladick (MO). Balboa, Standley 26086 (MO, US). 1 mi N of Summit on road to Gamboa, Tyson 2765 (MO). CHIRIQuI: Near Veladero, Burt & Koster 127 (MO). Francis Arriba School, ca. 14 mi N of David, Lewis et al. 681 (GH, MO). COCLE_: Entrance to Rio Hato Air Base, Blum & Tyson 1867 (FSU, MO, SCZ). HERRERA: El Portero, Las Minas, Burt & Koster 90 (MO). Highway N of Las Minas, Croat 9668 (MO, NY). 10 mi S of Ocu, Tyson et al. 2804 (FSU, MO, SCZ). PANAMA: La Chorrera, Bejuco, Burt & Rattray 25 (MO, NY). Between Chepo and El Llano, Croat 14487 (MO, NY). Rio Tocumen N of Chepo road, Hunter & Allen 239 (GH, MO). Between Rio Pacora and Chepo, Porter et al. 4205 (MO, SCZ). VERAGUAS: Between Cafiazas and the foot of the Cordillera Central, Headwaters of Rio Cafiazas, Allen 191 (A, MO, US). La Pena, Burt & Rattray 83 (MO). Without locality: Hayes 720 (NY).
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