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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 3/28/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 3/28/2013)
Species Hasseltia floribunda H.B.K.
PlaceOfPublication Nov. Gen. Sp. P1. 1: 232, pl. 651, 1825.-Fig. 4.
Description Shrub or small tree 3-10 m high, the trunk to 30 cm in diam, the branchlets glabrous or appressed-puberulous. Leaves dark green, with the petioles to 4 cm long, canaliculate above, glabrous or appressed-puberulous; blade from narrowly to broadly-elliptic, sometimes oblong-elliptic, acute at the base, obtusely acuminate at the apex, coarsely and irregularly serrate along the margins, to 22.5 cm long and 11 cm wide, chartaceous, glabrous above, glabrous or appressed-puberulous especially along the veins below, the main veins and secondary veins prominent
Habit Shrub or small tree
Description beneath, the network of the veins prominulous below. Inflorescences usually large and many-flowered, the axes puberulous. Flowers greenish, yellowish-white or white, the pedicels slender, to 1 cm long, puberulous to tomentellous; sepals 4, reflexed, ovate, acute, to 2.8 mm long and 1.3-1.7 mm wide, puberulous to tomentel- lous; petals 4, reflexed, obovate, acute, to 2.7 mm long and 1.2-1.4 mm wide, puberulous to tomentellous; stamens 30-40, inserted on a glandular disc (apparently 8 separate glands), the filaments 3-4 mm long, puberulous to sparsely puberulous, the anthers ca 0.25-0.3 mm long; ovary substipitate, globose-ellipsoid, ca 1.5-1.8 mm long and 1.3-1.5 mm wide, puberulous to subglabrous, the style ca 1.5-2 mm long. Bacca subglobose, surmounted by the persistent style, 4-6 mm long, the pericarp succulent, red to black, puberulous, becoming glabrous; seeds 1 or 2, 3.5-4.5 mm long, the testa glabrous.
Distribution From Honduras to Panama, and in northern South America.
Specimen BOCAS DEL TORO: nr Bocas del Toro, Carleton 198 (F, US); Changuinola Valley, Dunlap 550 (F). CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado I, Bailey & Bailey 534 (F), Bangham 539 (F), Brown 39 (F), 57 (F), Dwyer 1450 (F), Shattuck 674 (MO), 855a (MO, US), 855b (MO), Standley 31441 (US), 40929 (US), Wetmore & Abbe 196 (F), Wilson 58 (F), 103 (F), Woodworth & Vestal 448 (F), 646 (F), Zetek 5071 (F); on Las Cruces Trail, vie Trans-Isthmian Hwy, Blum & Miller 2283 (MO); 12 m S of Colon, vie Rio Providencia, Blum & Tyson 2318 (MO); nr Quebracho on Panama Railroad, Christopherson .122 (US); Monte Lirio, Christopherson 129 (US); vie of Hill C-6, Ft. Sherman, shaded areas, Duke 4389 (MO); Madden Dam, Dwyer 2183 (MO); Empire Station, Hayes 36 (MO); Bojio Station, Hayes 946 (NY); common in many places along Panama Railroad, Hayes 1016 (NY); vic of Gatuncillo, Piper 5604 (NY, US), 5655 (US); hills N of Frijoles, Standley 27428 (US); Darien Station, moist thicket, Standley 31614 (US); Obispo, Standley 31686 (US); rd from Ft. Sherman to Gatun Locks, Tyson & Blum 3805 (MO). COLON: Portobello, La Cruzio Trail, Ebinger 100 (MO); betw France Field, Canal Zone, and Catival, wooded swamp, Standley 30266 (US), 30297 (US). DARIEN: trail betw Pinogana and Yavisa, alt ca 15 m, Allen 246 (F), 289 (F, MO, NY); headwaters Rio Chico, alt 500-750 ft, Allen 4604 (F, MO); Rio Pirre, 2-5 mi above El Real, Duke 5089 (MO); hills nr Pidiaque, Duke 8039 (MO); Rio Pirre, Duke & Bristan 8272 (MO), 8278 (MO); Rio Sabana, King Leopold III 104 (MO); forest around Pinogana, Pittier 6528 (US); El Real de Sta. Maria, Pittier 6967 (NY, US); vic of Paya, Rio Paya, Stern et al. 186 (MO, US); Rio Tuira, S of El Real, Don Pablo Othon's pasture, foothills of Cerro Pirre, Stern et al. 748 (MO, US); Cana & vic, alt 2000-6500 ft, Williams 984 (NY, US). PANAMA: along Rfo Juan Diaz above Juan Diaz, alt ca 30 m, Allen 940 (F, MO, NY, US); Bohio Soldado, Cowell 243 (NY, US); nr confluence of Rio Pacora & Rio Corso, alt ca 450 m, Duke 11968; San Jose I, Erlanson 380 (NY, US), Johnston 372 (MO, US); nr Chepo, Kluge 32 (F), s.n. (US); Rio Tapia, Standley 26139 (US), 28231 (US); Rio Tocumen, moist forest, Standley 29330 (US), 29360 (US); Juan Diaz, Standley 31597 (US). PROVINCE UNKNOWN: S. loc., Seemann s.n. (NY).
 
 
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