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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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ELACHYPTERA FLORIBUNDA (Benth.) A. C. Smith
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PlaceOfPublication
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Brittonia 3: 387, fig. 3(a-n). 1940
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Reference
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Johnston, Sargentia 8: 188. 1949.
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Synonym
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Hippocratea floribunda Benth., Bot. Voy. Sulph. 78. 1844. Hippocratea celastroides sensu Woodson & Schery, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 29: 357. 1942, non H. B. K. (1822).
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Description
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Liana or slender tree with scandent branches. Leaves with the petiole 3-9 mm. long, the blade ovate-elliptic or elliptic, acute to rounded at the base, gradually short-acuminate or cuspidate at the apex, entire or crenulate-undulate at the mar- gins, 5-12 cm. long and 2-5 cm. broad, chartaceous, the costa prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescences solitary or aggregated in clusters of 2-4, 2-11 cm. long. Flowers 2-2.7 mm. in diam., often minutely cinereous-puberulus on all exterior sur- faces; sepals deltoid to semiorbicular, subentire or erosulous at the margins, 0.3-0.5 mm. long and 0.4-0.7 mm. broad, submembranous or papyraceous; petals oblong to elliptic, entire or distally erosulous, 1-1.7 mm. long and 0.6-1 mm. broad; disc undulate and slightly thickened at the margin, 0.12-0.2 mm. high; filaments of the stamens 0.3-0.4 mm. long, slightly broadened at base and apex, the anthers about 0.2 mm. long and 0.4 mm. broad; ovary 0.4-0.5 mm. in diam., the ovules 2 per cell, collateral; style 0.1-0.3 mm. long, the stigmas forming a minute, capitate shield, obtuse or faintly emarginate, often obscure. Fruits often 5-10 per inflorescence, the mericarps elliptic or slightly obovate, obtuse or rounded or faintly emarginate at the apex, 3-4.5 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. broad and about 3 mm. thick, the pericarp thin- coriaceous, conspicuously flabellate-costate without, smooth within; seeds 2 per mericarp, the embryoniferous portion ellipsoid, the wing oblong, 4-5 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad distally, gradually narrowed toward the base, extended distally into a narrow, thickened flange.
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Habit
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Liana tree
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Distribution
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Guatemala to Panama and northern South America to Brazil.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, Old Bank Island, von Wedel 2038! (MO, US). CANAL ZONE: south of Fort Sherman, Johnston 1763! (MO). CHIRIQUI: Palo Alto, just east of Boquete, alt. 5,000 ft., partly disturbed forest of cloud-forest type, Stern, Chambers, Dwyer & Ebinger 1011! (MO, US). COL6N: Rio Indio de Fato, near sea level, Pittier 4274! (US). PANAMA: San Jose Island, Erlanson 393! (US), 523! (US), 562! (US), Johnston 484! (MO, US), 1128 1159. VERAGUAS: Isla de Coiba (Penal Colony), Dwyer 2402! (MO).
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