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(Last Modified On 3/28/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/28/2013)
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Species
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Hasseltia guatemalensis Warb.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6a): 32, fig. 12, D-E, 1893 .
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Description
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Tree to 30 m tall, the trunk to 55 cm in diam, the branchlets puberulous when young. Leaves with the petioles to 2 cm long, canaliculate above, appressed-puber- ulous when young; blade elliptic, obtuse to acute at the base, obtuse to obtusely short-acuminate at the apex, subentire-margined, to 12.5 cm long and 5.5 cm wide, chartaceous, somewhat shiny and glabrous above, dull and sparsely appressed- puberulous when young especially along the veins beneath, the main veins and secondary veins prominulous beneath. Inflorescences large and many-flowered, the axes puberulous to tomentellous. Flowers with the pedicels slender, to 1 cm long,
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Habit
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Tree
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Description
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tomentellous; sepals (3-)4, ovate, acute, ca 4 mm long and 3 mm wide, tomentel- lous; petals (3-)4, ovate, acute, ca as long as the sepals but somewhat narrower, tomentellous; stamens inserted on a glandular disc, with glabrous filaments to 3 mm long; ovary puberulous, 2- or 3-celled, the style ca 1.5 mm long. Bacca, (im- mature) subglobose, sparsely puberulous.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: nr sawmill on Rio Chiriqui Viejo, 3 km N of Camp El Volcan, alt 4300 ft, evergreen rain forest, Little 6063 (F, MO, NY).
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Note
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The above described collection is very close to H. guatemalensis (see Standley & L. Williams, Flora of Guatemala, Fieldiana: Bot. 24(7): 94, 1961) (Mexico to Nicaragua), but differs by the tomentellous pedicels and sepals, and by the sparsely puberulous young fruits. Furthermore, some flowers are 3-merous (3 sepals and 3 petals), and the dissection of one ovary showed clearly a 3-celled condition. More material is needed, however, to evaluate these characters.
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