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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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ANNONA HAYESIH Saff. ex Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 15: 102. 1925
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Reference
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R. E. Fries, in Acta Hort. Berg. 10: 273, tab. 21. 1931.
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Description
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A high shrub or small tree; branchlets densely sericeous-tomentose, ferruginous. Leaves on petioles 3-7 mm. long, thin-membranaceous, underneath pale and at first appressed-hirsute, soon glabrous except on the nerves, obovate or elliptic, abruptly acuminate and rather rotundate at the base, 8-12(-25) cm. long and 4-9 cm. broad. Inflorescences opposite the leaves or produced from the middle of the internodes below the leaves, 1- or few-flowered; pedicels 12-15 mm. long, densely ferruginous-hirsute; flower buds long-caudate from a globose base. Sepals ovate, acuminate. Outer petals up to 30 mm, long, connate up to 5 mm. above the base, the base ovate, abruptly narrowed into a linear obtuse acumen nearly 20 mm. long, rufous sericeous-tomentellous on the outside; inner petals minute, 5-7 mm. long, connate with the outer at the base. Stamens 1.2-15 mm. long, the con- nective disk narrower than the anther. Fruit subglobose, smooth, 5 cm. long or more.
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Habit
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shrub tree
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Distribution
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Found only in Panama.
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Native
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Panama
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Ancon Hill, alt. 200 ft., Allen 4521; Corozal, Gervais 141. DARIEN: forest at Yaviza, Pittier 6592; La Palma, alt. 50 m., Pittier 6598. PANAMA: thickets and forests near ArraijAn, alt. ca. 15 m., Woodson, Allen & Seibert 1372; Matias Hernandez, Pittier 6749.
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Note
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Also reported from Barro Colorado Island (Standley, 1933).
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