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(Last Modified On 8/6/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/6/2013)
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Species
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Columnea crassa Morton
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 29: 45. 1942.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Allen 2423 (US, holotype).
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Synonym
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Dalbergaria crassa (Morton) Wiehl., Phytologia 27: 317. :1973.
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Description
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Large herbs or small shrubs, terrestrial or epiphytic; stems to 1 m1 tall, 4-10 mm in diam., green to reddish, densely brown hirsute, glabrescent below. Leaves of a pair strongly unequal, the larger leaf in a pair oblanceolate, 20.4- 21.6 cm long and 4.9-6.5 cm wide, the apex acuminate, attenuate and oblique at the base, entire, above dark green, glabrous, below red spotted toward apex, densely strigose, hairs brown to reddish, 4-7 celled, more numerous on the veins and redder at the margins of the leaf, also few 2-3 celled white addressed hairs; petioles 5-10 mm long; smaller leaves lanceolate, 2.0-4.1 cm long and 1.1-1.6 cm wide, long acuminate, entire, oblique at the base, green. Flowers solitary to several in each axil; bracts ovate, 2.0-3.2 cm long, serrate, acuminate, yellowish green to deep red, hirsute above and notably hirsute on the prominent veins below; pedicels to 3 mm long, coarsely sericeous; calyx lobes ovate, 2.2.-2.5 cm long, acuminate, serrate, serrations 5-10, green or deep red, coarsely sericeous; corollas yellow, tubular, ca. 2.5 cm long, ca. 5 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 6 mm in diam. above, externally coarsely sericeous; lobes sub- regular, erect, to ca. 2 mm long; anthers included; ovary ovoid, appressed pilose, the style and the stigma not seen. Fruits ovoid, 1.4-1.7 cm long, 0.8-1.0 cm in diam. when immature, orange to yellow.
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Habit
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Large herbs or small shrubs
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Distribution
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This species is known only from Panama from the provinces of Cocle, Panama, and Veraguas.
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Specimen
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COCLE: Cerro Pilon above El Valle de Ant6n, Croat 14351 (MO, NY, USF). Summit of Cerro Pilon above El Valle de Anton, 2700 ft, Dwyer et al. 4508 (MO). El Valle, end of road leading to Turistico Hotel, Folsom 3136 (MO). El Cope, El Petroso, Atlantic slope of Alto Calvario, Folsom & Lantz 1875 (MO, US). La Mesa N of El Valle, 1000 m, Gentry 6839 (MO, PMA). Cerro Pilon, Lallathin 5083 (MO). Cerro Pilon, 900-1173 m, Liesner 785 (MO, NA). Cerro Pilon 5 km NE of El Valle, 800-1045 m, Mori et al. 6581 (MO). Foot of Cerro Pilon above El Valle de Anton, 2000 ft, Porter et al. 4457 (MO). La Mesa above El Valle 800 m, Skog & Butcher 4116 (MO, US). El Petroso at Rivera's sawmill 7 km beyond El Cope, 800 m, Skog et al. 4198 (E, MO, US). PANAMA: Cerro Campana, 1000 m, Allen 2423 (US). Road to Carti 7-19 km N of El Llano, 400-900 m, Busey 900 (US); Correa et al. 1860 (PMA); Dressier 4273 (MO, PMA), 4546 (PMA); Folsom 3567 (IMO). Capira, NE side of Cerro Trinidad, 900 mn, Foster 2113 (DUKE, MO, PMA). 8-17.5 km above Panamerican Highway from El Llano to Carti-Tupile, Kennedy et al. 2420 (US); Liesner 1294 (US); Mori et al. 4609 (MO); Nee et al. 8736 (MO). Cerro Campana, 1000 in, Nee & Stockwell 11624 (MO); Porter et al. 4281 (MO). Llano-Carti road, 11.2 km from El Llano and junction with Pan- american Highway, 600 m, Skog & Folsom 4175 (MO, PMA, US). VERAGUAS: Valley of Rio Dos Bocas 11-16.5 km beyond Agriculture School at Santa Fe, 350-550 mn, Croat 25758, 27783 (both MO). Guabal, Rio Dos Bocas, 16 km NW of Santa Fe, 500 mn, Dressler 4792, 4793 (both PMA). 6-7 km outside of Santa Fe, Folsom 2952 (MO, US); Gentry 2968 (MO); Nee 11264 (MO).
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