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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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Lunania piperoides Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 4: 317, 1929.
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Description
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Shrub to medium-sized tree to 20 m tall, the branchlets minutely puberulous and hirtellous, glabrescent; blade somewhat inequilateral, ovate to oblong-ovate, sometimes narrowly so, rounded to more or less cuneate at the base, long-caudate-acuminate at the apex, the acumen to 2.5 cm long and blunt, the margins entire to somewhat undulate, to 13.5 cm long and 5.5 cm wide, thin-chartaceous to chartaceous, 3- nerved from the base, somewhat shining on both sides, glabrous above, minutely puberulous and hirtellous along the main veins to glabrous beneath, the main veins slightly impressed above and prominent beneath, the veinlets slightly prominulous and loosely reticulate on both sides. Inflorescences of branched racemes, the racemes to 10 cm long, the rachis densely and minutely puberulous. Flowers greenish, the pedicels to 1.5 mm long, the bracts ca 0.8 mm long, the bracteoles ca 0.5 mm long, persistent; calyx splitting into 2 spreading, cucullate, glabrous lobes to 2 mm long; stamens 10, the filaments to 1.5(-3) mm long, the anthers subglobose, ca 0.5 mm long, the disc ca 0.5 mm high, glabrous; ovary glabrous, the styles 3, somewhat flabellate towards the apex, glabrous. Fruit (not seen, acc. to original description) subglobose, 5 mm long, the pericarp smooth, pale red, and glabrous; seeds numer- ous, embedded in pulp, ovoid, 1 mm long.
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Habit
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Shrub tree
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Distribution
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Honduras and Panama.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: vic of Chiriqui Lagoon, Fish Creek, mountains, von Wedel 2396 (MO, US). COCLE': El Valle de Anton, forest behind Club Campestre, alt ca 700 m, Duke 13248 (MO).
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