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(Last Modified On 11/12/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/12/2012)
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Species
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PERSEA VERAGUASENSIS Seemann
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Voy. Herald, 193. 1854.
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Description
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Tree from 3-18 (-25) m. high; branchlets densely striate, angled, densely subferruginous-sericeous becoming glabrescent and atro-rubescent or gray-brown- maculate. Leaves alternate; petioles slender to robust, rusty-pubescent to gla- brescent, 2.5-3 cm. long; blades dark green, shining above, glabrescent and pale or glaucescent beneath, and sericeous-pubescent,' chartaceous, oblong-elliptic or elliptic, 8-17 cm. long and up to 6 cm. broad, the base obtuse or cuneate, some- times subrhomboid, the apex acute, acuminate or obtuse, the lateral nerves 8-1i0 pairs, conspicuous beneath, diverging from the costa at an angle of 35-45?. Inflorescence axillary, of few-flowered, ferruginous- or buff-sericeous-tomentose panicles shorter than the leaves, up to 6 cm. long, the peduncle sericeous. Flowers to,4 mm. long, sessile or with sericeous pedicels up to 1 mm. long; perianth-lobes fleshy, unequal, the outer 1.3-2.5 mm. long, the inner 2.5-4.5 mm. long; stamens 2.15-2.6 mm. or more long (ser. II & III longer); staminodia to 1.7 mm. long, ligulate, pubescent; gynaecium 3.42 mm. long, the ovary glabrous, ovoid, slightly stipitate, the style pubescent, the stigma triangular-discoid. Fruit globose, apicu- late with bluish bloom, 10-11 mm. in diameter, subtended by the enlarged perianth-lobes and seated on the enlarged red pedicel.
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Habit
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Tree
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Note
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Woods of Costa Rica south into Panama from an altitude of 600 to 2300 meters. Described by Seemann from Volcain de Chiriqui.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica south into Panama
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Elevation
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600 to 2300 m
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Bajo Mona, Boquete, Davitison 5i6; savannas of Boquete, Davidson 753; Rio Chiriqui Viejo Valley near El Volcain, P. White 213; in the open llanos about a mile from Bambito, valley of the upper Rio Chiriqui Viejo, P. White 334.
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Note
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Also similar to Persea caerulea from South America, but easily separated by the few-flowered panicles shorter than the leaves, the shorter leaf-blades with nerves, and petioles that are not reddish in color.
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