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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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Species
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GUATTERIA AERUGINOSA Standl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 4: 206. 1929.
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Description
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Tree about 15 m. high; young branchlets densely clothed with short fer- ruginous hairs. Leaves on very short petioles (1-2 mm. long), 14-18 cm. long and 4-5.5 cm. broad, oblong to oblanceolate and broadest above the middle, shortly narrowed to the base, long-cuspidate at the apex, verruculose-punctate on both sides, ferruginous-pilose on the midrib above and finally glabrous, densely rubi- ginous-pilose beneath, later thinly ferruginous-hirsute, the hairs rather long-patent and soft. Flowers solitary; pedicels thick, rigid, densely pilose, 1-3 cm. long, ar- ticulate 3-4 mm. above the base, Petals thick, finally horizontally expanded, seri- ceous-tomentellous on the outside, tomentellous on the inside except at their glabrous base, ovate to oblong-elliptic, the outer petals up to 13 mm. long and 6-8 mm. broad, the inner a little shorter. Stamens 1.5-1.7 mm. long. Monocarps black, narrowly ellipsoid, acute at both ends, 10 mm. long and 4 mm. across.
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Tree
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Von Wedel 155, 490; Isla Col6n vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, Von Wedel 2856; Cricamola, near Almirante, Cooper 526, 526a.
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