(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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Aspidosperma megalocarpon Miill.-Arg.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Linnaea 30: 400. 1860.-FIG. 8.
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Synonym
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Aspidosperma cruentum Woodson, Amer. Jour. Bot. 22: 684. 1935, "cruenta." Aspidosperma sanguineum Bartlett, Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 461: 16. 1935, nom. nud. Aspidosperma sanguinale Bartlett, loc. cit., 22, nom. nud.
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Description
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Trees, to 25 m, latex yellow to red, the younger stems minutely and densely pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic, acute, obtuse basally, to 26 cm long and 7 cm wide, glabrous, subcoriaceous, lustrous above and dull beneath; peti- oles ca. 1-3 cm long. Inflorescences corymbose-thyrsiform, axillary or terminal at the uppermost nodes, the bracts not apparent. Flowers with the pedicels 1-2 mm long; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes somewhat unequal, ovate, ca. 2 mm long, densely brown-white pubescent; corolla tubular-salverform, yellow to white, glabrous, the tube straight and angular, ca. 4 mm long, the lobes narrowly- triangular, ca. 1.5 mm long, erect; stamens inserted ca. midway on the corolla tube, the anthers ca. 0.8-1 mm long; ovary somewhat compressed, the stigma capitate. Follicles compressed, oval, woody, brown-tomentose, to 13 cm long and
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Habit
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Trees
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Description
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10 cm wide; seeds numerous, the wing large and concentric, ca. 9-10 cm wide.
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Distribution
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Mexico, most of Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Croat 8159, 8504, Knight s.n. (all MO). Fort Gulick, Johnston 1747, Tyson & Keenan 3880 (both MO).
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Note
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The Panamanian collections were in fruiting stages only, and the descrip- tion was completed using Guatemalan material (Cook & Doyle 47, US) de- termined by Woodson.
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