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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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OCOTEA PAULII C. K. Allen
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Arnold Arb. 26:345. 1945.
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Description
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Tree (or scandent shrub?) to 15 m. high; branchlets angled, brown becoming gray, sulcate, glabrous. Leaves alternate or subopposite, glabrous; petioles stout, glabrous, reddish black, 1 (-1.5) cm. long; blades glabrous throughout, coriaceous, more or less greenish brown or castaneous in the dried state, oblong, to 20 cm. long and 5-6.5 cm. broad, the base cuneate, often abruptly so, the apex abruptly and obtusely acuminate or rounded or obtuse, sometimes emarginate, penninerved, the costa uniformly thick, reddish, somewhat elevated above, conspicuously so beneath, the nerves 8-12 pairs, inconspicuously elevated above, conspicuously so beneath, diverging from the costa at an angle of 450, the reticulation somewhat prominulous throughout. Inflorescence axillary or subterminal, broadly panicu- late,, to 25 cm. long, glabrescent, reddish, many-flowered, peduncle reddish, to 6 cm. long. Flowers to 2 mm. long, pedicels slender, to 2 mm. long, perianth cam- panulate, pale yellowish, lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, or subacute, membranaceous, 1.25-1.5 mm. long; stamens of ser. I & II 1 mm. long, the anthers ovate, twice the length of the filaments; those of ser. III 1.25-1.7 mm. long, the anthers ovate- quadrate, the glands stipitate; gynaecium glabrous, 1.7 mm. long, ovary broadly ovoid or subglobose, equaling the style, the stigma conspicuous. Fruit black on drying, oblong, 18-20 X 10-11 mm., the subtending cupule shallow, subhypo- crateriform, rugulose, glabrous, 2 mm. long, 5-6 mm. in diameter, and 1 mm. deep, the margin undulate, the pedicel somewhat enlargedi glabrous, 3-4 mm. long.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, in cloud-forests of the Pacific watershed,
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Elevation
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up to 1450 m
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Distribution
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and Panama
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Specimen
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cHIRIQuf: between Cerro Vaca and Hato del Loro, Pittier 5395. COCLE: vicinity of El Valle, Allen 1211, '775, 2848.
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Note
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Distinguished by the coriaceous leaf-blades, which are bright brown on drying.
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