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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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Species
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GUSTAVIA BRACHYCARPA Pittier
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Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26:3. 1927.
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Description
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Trees 5-15 m. tall, with stout straight trunks; leafy twigs slender. Leaves rather distant, distinctly petiolate, the blade obovate-elliptic, rather abruptly and narrowly acuminate, obtusely cuneate and somewhat decurrent to the petiole, 9-22 cm. long, 3-8 cm. broad, glabrous, firmly membranaceous, rather obscurely undulate-serrulate; petiole 1-2 cm. long. Flowers terminal or subterminal, solitary or in pairs; peduncle rather slender, 1-2 cm. long in flower, accrescent and decur- rently winged in fruit; hypanthium turbinate, broadly winged, about 5 mm. high and 8 mm. broad, minutely ferruginous-papillate; calyx lobes 6, broadly triangular, about 12 mm. long, thickly foliaceous, ferruginous-papillate; petals 6, white, broadly oval, nearly equal, 4.0-4.5 cm. long, minutely ferruginous-papillate with- out and within. Mature fruits cylindric-campanulate, about 3 cm. long and 2 cm. broad, gradually decurrent to the accrescent winged peduncle, crowned by the accrescent persistent calyx lobes, essentially glabrous without.
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Trees
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Distribution
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Lowland forests and swamps of the Pacific watershed, Panama.
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Note
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The beautiful and informative fruits of Pittier 5269 have been discussed above. Allen 787 is in flower. This must correspond to Seemann's (Bot. Voy. H.M.S. Herald 126. 1853) record of Lecythis coriacea DC. from Remedios, which he calls ollito (little pot-tree), doubtless with reference to the dry dehiscent fruits. With great significance from the standpoint of our argument Seemann reports the ver- nacular name of the true Gustavias as membrillo (quince tree), which is in wide use in Panama to the present day.
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