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(Last Modified On 3/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/7/2013)
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Species
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CUERVEA KAPPLERIANA (Miq.) A. C. Smith
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PlaceOfPublication
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Brittonia 3: 399. 1940.-Fig. 1(E, F).
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Synonym
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Hippocratea Kappleriana Miq., Linnaea 26: 220. 1853. Cuervea latifolia Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 28: 372. 1872. Hippocratea integrifolia sensu Seem., Bot. Voy. Herald 90. 1853, non A. Rich. (1843); Hemsl., Biol. Centr.-Am. 1: 193. 1880.
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Description
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Liana, the branchlets usually opposite, often rugose, cinereous or brownish. Leaves with the petiole 8-15 mm. long, the blade elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, subattenuate and decurrent at the base, gradually acuminate at the apex, entire or obscurely crenulate at the margins, 8-19 cm. long and 4-10 cm. broad, chartaceous, the costa prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescences 5-12 cm. long. Flowers 10-17 mm. in diam.; sepals broadly ovate or ovate-deltoid, subentire or faintly erosulous at the margins, 1.3-2.5 mm. long, usually obviously flabellate-nerved; petals often strongly concave, obovate-elliptic, rounded at the apex, entire or faintly undulate- crenulate and often inflexed at the margins, 5.5-9 mm. long and 3.5-7.5 mm. broad; disc 0.4-0.7 mm. high, membranous; stamens 1.6-2.2 mm. long; ovary 0.8-1.5 mm. in diam., the ovules 4-6 per cell, the style stout, the stigmas conspicuous, spreading, oblong, obtuse. Mericarps depressed-obovate to suborbicular, 5-9 cm. long, 5.5-10 cm. broad and 1-1.5 cm. thick, the pericarp thin-coriaceous; seeds 4-6 per mericarp, the embryoniferous-portion 2-5 cm. long and 1.5-3 cm. broad, the wing about 20-25 mm. long and 5-10 mm. broad distally, coriaceous.
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Habit
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Liana
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, Panama, northern South America and the West Indies.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL ToRo: region of Almirante, Cooper 474! (F). DARIEN: vicinity of Campamento Buena Vista, Rio Chucunaque above confluence with Rio Tuquesa near Quebrada Felix, Stern, Chambers, Dwyer & Ebinger 965! (MO, US). VERAGUAS: Isla de Coiba, mouth of Rio Juncal, Dwyer 1651! (MO, US), Seemann 643 (K, type of C. latifolia).
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