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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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Fernaldia speciosissima Woodson,
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 26: 300. 1939.
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Description
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Corollas mostly showy, white, wholly glabrous externally, the tube proper 2.5-2.8 cm long, 0.25 cm in diameter basally, gibbous, the throat narrow, ca. 2.6-2.8 cm long, densely arachnoid-villous within, the orifice ca. 0.6 cm in diameter, the lobes obliquely obovate, 2.8-3 cm long, glabrous; anthers ca. 1 cm long, glabrous; stigma with a fusiform base and digitate appendages ca. 0.3 cm long.
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Distribution
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Known only from the type collection.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Between Rio Chiriqui & Remedios, Woodson et al. 1179 (MO, holotype).
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Note
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It is with considerable misgivings that I recognize and include this species, which is based on three corollas which Woodson collected on the ground at the base of a tall tree supporting a liana. However, he states that "complete confi- dence none the less may be placed in the generic identification of the corollas (which, of course, contain the stamens and stigma as is customary in the Echi- toideae)" (Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 26: 300. 1939).
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