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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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HYLENAEA PRAECELSA (Miers) A. C. Smith
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PlaceOfPublication
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Brittonia 3: 410, fig. 6 (a-n). 1940
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Reference
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Johnston, Sargentia 8: 188. 1949.-Fig. 1 (D).
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Synonym
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Tyloderma praecelsa Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 28: 414. 1872. Salacia praecelsa (Miers) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. HIerb. 27: 243. 1928.
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Description
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Liana, the branchlets slender, subterete or distally faintly quadrangular, cinere- ous or brownish. Leaves with the blade elliptic-oblong, rounded or subcordate at the base, abruptly acuminate or cuspidate at the apex, entire and minutely recurved at the margins, 8-26 cm. long and 3.5-11 cm. broad, chartaceous or thin-coriaceous, lustrous above, the costa prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescences 1.5-5 cm. long, the peduncle, rachis and branchlets slender, straight, flattened or quadrangular. Flowers 1.5-2 mm. in diam., the pedicel capillaceous, 1.2-1.8 mm. long; sepals oblong-ovate, subacute, obscurely erosulous at the margins, 0.3-0.5 mm. long and broad; petals suberect or spreading, oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex, 1 mm. long and 0.6 mm. broad; disc entire or faintly crenulate at the margin, about 1 mm. high, membranous; stamens suberect, 0.3-0.4 mm. long; ovary 0.3-0-4 mm. in diam., the ovules 4 per cell, the style about 0.2 mm. long. Mericarps obovate, rounded or faintly emarginate at the apex, 7.5-10 cm. long, 4-8 cm. broad and 1-2 cm. thick, dehiscing along an obscure median suture and often strongly involute at the sutures at maturity, the pericarp 1.5-2 mm. thick, rugose and conspicuously sparsely furfuraceous without, smooth or flabellate-costate within; seeds 4 or fewer (by abortion) per mericarp, the embryoniferous portion ellipsoid or oblong-cylindric, slightly falcate, 5-6 cm. long and about 1.5 cm. broad, the wing obdeltoid, about 2 cm. long and conspicuously narrowed toward the base.
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Habit
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Liana
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Distribution
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Native to Panama; one of the local names is colmillo de puerco.
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Native
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Panama
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Specimen
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ANAL ZONE: near Chargres, Hayes 708 (K, type; photo F, US); vicinity of Fort Sher- man, wooded swamp, Standley 31107! (US); along road south of Fort Sherman, Johnston 1580! (MO); along the Chagres River below Gatun, near sea level, Pittier 2805! (F, US); region of Chagres River, Babbitt 491! (F); forest along the Rio Indio de Gatun, near sea level, Pittier 2770! (US); Barro Colorado Island, Bangham 523! (F), Wetmore & Wood- worth 851! (F). DARIEN: vicinity of Campamento Buena Vista, Rio Chucunaque above con- fluence with Rio Tuquesa, Stern, Chambers, Dwyer & Ebinger 942! (MO, US). PANAMA: San Jose Island, Johnston 1220! (MO, US).
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