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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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BEILSCHMIEDIA AuSTIN-SMITHII (Standley) C. K. Allen
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Arnold Arb. 26:418. 1945.
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Synonym
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Persea Austin-Smithii Standl. Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 18:1552. 1938.
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Description
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Tree to 3-0 m. high; branchlets densely foliose, the internodes very short, densely brownish-tomentose, angular or sulcate. Leaves alternate; petioles very thick, brownish-tomentose, to 1 cm. long; blades sparsely tomentellous, becoming almost glabrous above, beneath somewhat pubescent on the venation, rigidly coriaceous, brownish olive above, glaucous beneath, roundish ovate or suborbicular, 5.5-7 cm. long and 4.5-5 cm. broad, rounded at the base, often shortly and ab- ruptly contracted into the petiole, the apex broadly rounded, penninerved, the costa somewhat thickened and elevated, the nerves 3-4 (-7) pairs, arcuate, diverging at an angle of 55-65 0, the reticulation prominulous. Inflorescence axillary, paniculate, loosely sordid-tomentose, many-flowered, longer than the leaves, long-pedunculate. Flowers to 4.7 mm. long, the pedicels about 2 mm. long, thick, tomentellous; perianth dull yellow-brown, the lobes ovate, very obtuse, brownish-tomentellous without, about 2 mm. long; stamens of ser. I & II 1.5 mm. long, the anthers elliptic, narrowly truncate, twice the length of the broad pubes- cent filaments, the connectives protruding; those of ser. III- 1.7 mm. long, the anthers ovate, truncate, the filaments bearing large glands that are fused; stam- inodia large, subcordate; gynaecium glabrous, to 1.7 mm. long, the ovary ovoid, topped by a very short style, the stigma obtuse. Fruit depressed-globose, 3.4 X 2.7 cm., the subtending pedicel enlarged to 1 cm. long and 1 cm. in diameter at the tip, 0.5 cm. in diameter at the base, glabrous, somewhat rugose.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Known only from Costa Rica and Chiriqu
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Elevation
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2000 meters
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUi: vicinity of Cerro Punta, Allen 3490.
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