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(Last Modified On 4/10/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/10/2013)
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Species
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Echites turbinata Woodson
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 21: 615. 1934.-FIG. 25.
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Description
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Lianas, rather stout, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to ovate-elliptic, shortly acu- minate, obtuse to ? rounded basally, to 17 cm long and 9 cm wide, glabrous, subcoriaceous; petioles stout, ca. 1-2 cm long, with 2-3 large stipule-like glands in the axils. Inflorescences aggregate dichasial, axillary and alternate, several- to many-flowered, the primary peduncle 2-3 cm long. Flowers with the pedicels 4-8 mm long; bracteole 1(?), narrow-lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, variously placed; calyx-lobes ? equal, narrowly lanceolate, ca. 3 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, the squamella thin, lacerate marginally; corolla green to white, the tube ca. 6 mm long, pubescent within at the level of stamen attachment, the lobes ? lanceo- late, 13-16 mm long; stamens attached about midway on the corolla tube, ca. 3 mm long; nectaries separate, almost as high as the ovary. Follicles slender, 7-8 cm long; mature seeds unknown.
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Habit
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Lianas
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Vicinity of Casita Alta, Volcain de Chiriqui, Woodson et al. 988 (MO). Vicin- ity of Cerro Punta, Allen 1524 (MO). Rio Chiriqui Viejo Valley, between El Volcain and Cerro Punta, G. White 6 (US).
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