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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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TONTELEA RICHARDII (Peyritsch) A. C. Smith
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PlaceOfPublication
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Brittonia 3: 478. 1940.
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Synonym
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Salacia Richardi Peyritsch in Mart., Fl. Bras. 11(1): 148. 1878.
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Description
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Liania, the branches stout, subterete. Leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 12-17 mm. long, the blade elliptic to oblong, rounded or obtuse and decurrent at the base, cuspidate or short-acuminate at the apex, entire and slightly recurved at the mar- gins, 9-20 cm. long and 4-10 cm. broad, coriaceous or thin-coriaceous, the costa stout and prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescences axillary, thyrsoid-paniculate or pseudocymose, 3-4.5 cm. long. Flowers 4.5-5 mm. in diam.; sepals semiorbicular, rounded at the apex, entire, 0.7-1.3 mm. long and 1-1.5 mm. broad, papyraceous; petals elliptic- or subspatulate-obovate, 1.7-2.5 mm. long and 1.3-2.2 mm. broad, thin-carnose; disc erect, subentire or undulate at the margin, 0.3 mm. high, sub- membranous; stamens erect, the filaments 0.4-0.6 mm. long, slightly expanded toward the base, the anthers 0.3-0.5 mm. long and 0.6-0.9 mm. broad; ovary trigon- ous-conical, the style 2 per cell, superposed; style 0.2-0.4 mm. long, the stigmas spreading, deltoid, alternate with the stamens. Fruits often paired, subglobose or somewhat obovoid, slightly contracted at the base, rounded at the apex, up to 11 cm. in diam., the pericarp woody, finely rugulose without, the dissepiments persistent and coriaceous; seeds few, oblong-ovoid, 3-4 cm. long.
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Habit
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Liania
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Distribution
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Panama and the Guianas; a colloquial name in Panama is bejuco de canjura.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Aviles 54! (F), Shattuck 658! (F, MO), Wetmore, Abbe & Shattuck 92! -CF>, Zetek 3823! (F).
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