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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 9/24/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 9/24/2013)
Habit Herbs
Note This species is widespread in Panama and easily distinguished by its elliptic- orbicular, unifoliolate leaves and erect, terete loments.
Specimen BOCAS DEL TORO: Almirante, Barrus 403 (GH). Milla 5, Croat & Porter 16460 (MO). Bocas, Lazor et al. 2376 (FSU). CANAL ZONE: Gamboa, Busey 842 (MO). Ft. Kobbe, Duke 3914 (MO). Toro Point, Ft. Sherman, Duke 4336 (MO). Sosa Hill, Duke 4655 (GH, MO). Ft. Clayton, Dwyer 1001 (FSU, MO, SCZ)._ Curundu, Dwyer 1764 (MO). Frijoles, Ebinger 309 (MO, US). Madden Dam, Maurice 823 (US). Miraflores Lake, Tyson 1342 (FSU, MO, SCZ). Ft. Amador, Tyson 2014 (MO, SCZ). Curundu, Tyson 6631 (MO). Miraflores Lake, White 263 (MO, US). CHIRIQuf: David airport, Lewis et al. 739 (MO, NY). Puerto Armuelles, Liesner 141 (MO, NY). COCLE: NE of Rio Hato, Lasseigne 4293 (MO). COLON: Rio Piedras, Blum et al. 2546 (MO, SCZ). Col6n, Correa 1216 (MO). Portobelo to Pilon, Nee & Mori 3653 (MO, WIS). HERRERA: Los Pozos, Burt & Koster 94 (MO). PANAMA: Rio Pacora and Chepo, Duke 5941 (MO). Riomar, Duke 12416 (MO, NY); Ebinger 496 (MO, US). San Jose Island, Johnston 858 (GH, US). Panama City, Mendez 112 (US). Between Rio Pacora and Chepo, Porter et al. 5102, 5134 (both MO, SCZ). Riomar, Tyson et al. 2319 (FSU, SCZ). SAN BLAS: Point opposite 1lsa Mosquito, Duke 8993 (MO, NY). VERAGUAS: La Mata, Koster 118 (MO).
Species Alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC.
PlaceOfPublication Prodr. 2: 353. 1825.
Synonym Hedysarum vaginale L., Sp. P1. 746. 1753. TYPE: Ceylon, Hermann (?BM, not seen).
Description Herbs, suberect to prostrate, to 0.5 m tall; stems straw colored to black, glabrescent. Leaves unifoliolate, elliptic-orbicular, to 2.5 cm long, ca. 1.5 cm wide, apex rounded, apiculate, obtuse, truncate or subcordate basally, drying green, glabrous above, strigose-villose beneath; stipules erect, often amplexicaul, subulate, to 1.5 cm long, ca. 2 mm wide basally, acute, scarious, ciliolate. Inflo- rescence racemose, terminal, to 10 cm long. Flowers purple, ca. 5 mm long; the calyx deeply 5-lobed, the lobes unequal, acuminate, striate, puberulent; the stan- dard obovate, ca. 5 mm long; the wings oblong, ca. 4 mm long, the claw ca. 1.5 mm long, the keel connivent, oblong, ca. 4 mm long; stamens diadelphous, the staminal sheath terete, to 7 mm long, ca. 0.6 mm wide, the filaments alternating in length, the longer filament to 0.6 mm long, the anthers rotund, ca. 0.3 mm long; ovary linear, ca. 3 mm long, ca. 0.5 mm wide, appressed villosulose, the style compressed, geniculate, swollen, the stigma subdiscoidal, truncate. Fruits strongly ascending, terete, drying black, puberulent, ca. 6-articulate, articles ca. 2 mm long; seeds ca. 2 mm long, suborbicular, lustrous, reddish brown.
 
 
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