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(Last Modified On 1/11/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/11/2013)
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Species
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SANICULA LIBERTA Cham. & Schlecht.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Linnaea 1:353. 1826.
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Synonym
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Sanicula mexicana DC. Prodr. 4:84. 1830.
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Description
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Perennial herb from a fleshy rhizome, glabrous, the stem usually solitary, 2-6 dm. tall, dichasially branched; leaves broadly cordate-orbicular to suborbicular, the blade 2.5-8 cm. long, 3.5-10 cm. broad, palmately 5-parted, the primary leaf- lets petiolulate, setose-crenate and incised, the petiole 5-23 cm. long; cauline leaves reduced upward; peduncles 5-45 mm. long, sterile and fertile flowers intermixed, the former pedicellate; flowers pale green, the calyx-teeth narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; styles longer than the fruit-prickles; fruit usually 2 or 3 in each head, subglobose, 2-4 mm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, stipitate, densely uncinate- bristly, the vittae small, several on the dorsal and lateral surfaces, 2 on the commissure; seed flattened dorsally, its face flat.
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Habit
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herb
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Bajo Chorro, Boquete District, 6000 feet, Davidson 716; vicinity of El Boquete, 1000-1300 m., Maxon 5007; Caldera River below Quiel, forests around El Bo- quete, 1000-1300 m., Pittier 3148; foot of Pianista, vicinity of El Boquete, 1350 m., Bro. Maurice 708; vicinity of Casita Alta, Volcain de Chiriqui, 1500-2000 m., Woodson, Allen & Seibert 963; vicinity of "New Switzerland," central valley of Rio Chiriqui Viejo, 1800- 2000 m., Allen 1353; Valley of the upper Rio Chiriqui Viejo, vicinity of Monte Lirio, 1300-1900 m., Seibert 294; llanos on slopes of Volcain de Chiriqui Viejo and along Rio -Chiriqui Viejo, 1200 m., Allen 965.
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Distribution
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A plant of the forests and forest clearings, at altitudes of 1000-2000 meters in Panama, it extends from Chihuahua, Mexico, to Cordoba, Argentina.
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Elevation
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1000-2000 meters
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