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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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UNONOPSIS PITTIERI Saff.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 15: 102. 1925.
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Description
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Trees of moderate size, 10 m. tall, with pyramidal crown; young branches minutely sericeous, becoming glabrous and blackish, densely lenticellate, the stouter with grayish bark. Leaf petioles at first puberulent, becoming glabrous and blackish, 3-5 mm. long, flat or channelled above; blades membranaceous-papyraceous, al- most concolorous, at first sericeous on both sides but soon glabrescent, beneath with some more or less persistent hairs along the midrib or completely glabrous, the whole surface finely verruculose-punctate, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, narrowed toward the base and broadly acute or obtusish, cuspidate at the tip, 20-30 cm. long and 5-9 cm. broad, the veins on both sides prominent, 12-15, arcuate, ir- regularly gathered toward the margin. Inflorescences on leafless branches, about 1 cm. thick; pedicels thin, minutely sericeous, 2-4 mm. long, articulate about mid- way and bearing a minute bracteole. Sepals 1.5 mm. long, sericeous without, tri- angular and strongly connate. Petals valvate, broadly ovate, acute, the outer rather thick, glaucous-sericeous without, about 9 mm. long and 7 mm. broad, the inner thicker, 5-6 mm. long and 4-5 mm. broad, the midrib sericeous without but other- wise glabrous. Stamens 1.5 mm. long. Pistils 14-18, the ovaries cylindric-prismic, glabrous save the hairy angles, 1.5-1.7 mm. long, the stigmas conic-ovoid, 1 mm. long, the ovules solitary, attached below midway, horizontal. Monocarps brown, globose, 11-12, glabrous, with a stipe about 1 cm. long.
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Trees
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: headwaters of Rio Chinilla, above Nuevo Lim6n, Maxon 6890. COLON: along the Rio Fat6, in forests or thickets, alt. 10-100 m., Pittier 3871.
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Note
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Also reported by Standley from Barro Colorado Island. This species occurs also in Costa Rica, from whence the very closely related U. schippii is described.
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