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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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ARRACACIA ATROPURPUREA (Lehm.) Benth. & Hook
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 1:564. 1880.
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Synonym
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Pentacrypta atropurpurea Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamburg 17. 1828. Arracacia irazuensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1:265. 1891. Arracacia Luxeana Coult. & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 18:55. 1893. Arracacia humilis Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8:336. 1905.
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Description
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Slender, woody-based herb 6-40 dm. tall, glabrous except for the puberulent inflorescence; leaves oblong-ovate to ovate-deltoid, the blade 8-20 cm. long, 2- 3-ternate, the leaflets oblong-ovate, 2-8 cm. long, 1-3.5 cm. broad, doubly serrate and often incised, the petiole 8-16 cm. long; cauline leaves reduced upward; peduncles slender, 1-3 dm. long; involucre usually wanting, the involucel of several conspicuous bractlets exceeding the flowers and often the fruit; fertile rays usually 3-8, unequal, spreading, 3-9 cm. long, the fertile pedicels 5-10, 3-12 mm. long; flowers purple or greenish-yellow; stylopodium low-conical, the carpophore parted; fruit oblong to oblong-oval, 4-7 mm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, the ribs acute.
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Habit
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herb
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUi: savannas, Boquete, Boquete District, 4000 feet, Davidson 772; El Boquete, 1000-1300 m., Pittier 2952; Potrero Muleto to summit, Volcan Chiriqui, 3500-4000 m., WXoodson d Schery 402; Loma Larga to summit, Volcain de Chiriqui, 2500-3380 m., Woodson, Allen d Seibert 1056.
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Note
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This highly variable, suffrutescent herb, extending well northward into Mexico, presumably reaches its southern limit in the highlands of Panama at elevations of 1000 to 4000 meters.
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Elevation
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1000 to 4000 meters
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