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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 4/9/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 4/9/2013)
Species Rauvolfia littoralis Rusby,
PlaceOfPublication Descr. New Sp. S. Amer. PI. 84. 1920.-FIG. 14.
Synonym Rauvolfia multiflora Riley, Kew Bull. 1927: 124. 1927. Rauvolfia macrocarpa Standley, Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. Ser. 4: 254. 1929.
Description Shrubs or small trees, to 10 m, glabrous to softly pubescent on the younger branches. Leaves quarternate or ternate, distinctly anisophyllous, obovate, rarely
Habit Shrubs or small trees
Description elliptic or broadly ovate, acute to acuminate, obtuse basally, the larger leaves to 14 cm long and 6 cm wide, the smaller leaves 1/4 to 1/2 the size of the larger, glabrous to sparsely pubescent on the midrib above and beneath, firmly mem- branaceous; petioles glandular, ca. 2-6 mm long, glandular in the axils. Inflor- escences cymose, axillary and opposite, the peduncle 1-4 cm long, softly pubes- cent to ? glabrous, bracts minute. Flowers with the pedicels ca. 2-5 mm long; calyx-lobes broadly ovate and rounded, the margin frequently fimbriolate, ca. 0.6-0.8 mm long; corolla broadly tubular, white, the tube ca. 2-2.5 cm long, pubescent within, the lobes ? deltoid, erect, ca. 0.4 mm long; stamens attached near the top of the corolla tube, the anthers ca. 0.5 mm long; ovary syncarpous, the nectary cupulate, shallow, and entire, the stigma depressed-capitate. Drupes + spherical, ca. 6-8(-15) mm in diameter, becoming dark-red to black at maturity, the bony endocarp rugose; seeds 2, ovoid.
Distribution Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Specimen CANAL ZONE: Albrook Tower, vicinity of Tropic Test Center, Blum 552, Dwyer 6726 (both MO). Farfan Spillway, Bouche s.n. (MO). Fort Kobbe Beach, Bouche s.n. (MO). Near Gorgas Memorial Lab, P. White 120 (MO). Vicinity of Miraflores Lake, White 137 (MO). CHIRIQUI: Progreso, Cooper & Slater 200 (US, isotype of R. macrocarpa). DARIEN: Hill near Rio Chucunaque ca. 4 mi. below Yaviza, Duke 4876 (MO). Cuipo forests near Santa Fe, Duke 12289 (MO). PANAMA: Cerro Campana, Bartlett & Lasser 16919 (MO). Vicinity of Coccoli, Riley 125 (MO, US, isotypes of R. multiflora). Tocumen, Dwyer 1080 (MO).
 
 
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