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(Last Modified On 4/9/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/9/2013)
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Species
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Mandevilla subsagittata (Ruiz & Pavon) Woodson
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 19: 69. 1932.
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Synonym
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Echites subsagittata Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Peru. 2: 19. 1799.
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Description
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Lianas, mostly glabrous or sometimes moderately pubescent. Leaves opposite, sparsely glandular along the midrib, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, acute, subhastate to auriculate basally, to 8 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, glabrous or sparsely pubescent on the veins, membranaceous; petioles + pubescent, 2-5 mm long. Inflorescences racemose, axillary, to ca. 9 cm long. Flowers with the pedicels 3-5 mm long; "bracts scarious, lanceolate, 1-5 mm. long"7; calyx lobes subequal, deltoid, ca. 1 mm long, each bearing 1 oppositely placed squamella; corolla salverform, yellow with a red throat, the tube ca. 25-30 mm"-lon-g, gibbous, somewhat pubescent near the top, the lobes obovate to oblong, ca. 12-16 mm long and 9-12 mm wide, spreading, sparsely pubescent beneath; stamens included, attached near the top of the corolla throat, the anthers ca. 1.5 mm long; nectaries 5, some- times fewer and concrescent, ca. half as high as the ovary. Follicles unknown.
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Habit
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Lianas
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Distribution
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Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Brown 191 (F). Frijoles, Ebinger 637 (MO). West end of island (?), P. White 132 (MO). CHIRIQUI: Boquete, Davidson 847 (F, MO). PANAMA: Near Chepo, Pittier 4756 (F).
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