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(Last Modified On 1/14/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/14/2013)
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Species
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PHORADENDRON PIPEROIDES (H. B. K.) Nutt.
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Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila- delphia, ser. 2, 1:185. 1847.
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Synonym
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Viscum latifolium Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1:268. 1797, non Lam. Loranthus piperoides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3:443. 1820. Phoradendron latifolium (Sw.) Griseb., Fl. Brit. West Ind. Isl. 314. 1860.
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Description
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A very variable shrub, abundantly branched. Shoots slender, slightly com- pressed above, soon becoming terete. Cataphylls a single pair on every joint, 2-5 pairs on the lowest one, pointed. Leaves, at least most of them, obliquely broadly ovate, angustate both toward the base and apex, acuminate, coriaceous, marginally crisped and brown to black in drying, nerveless or obscurely pinnately veined beneath, 5-12 cm. long, 2.5-4.5 cm. broad; petioles about 5 mm. long. Spikes clustered, slender, mostly 6-jointed, 4 cm. long; peduncle nearly suppressed; joints terete, 5 mm. long, 6-20-flowered, the flowers 4-ranked. Fruits subglobose, yellow, 4 mm. in diameter, with connivent tepals.
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Habit
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shrub
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Distribution
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Widely distributed through the New World.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: vicinity of Nievecita, Woodson, Allen & Seibert 1843; Rio Crica- mola, between Finca St. Louis and Konkintoe, Woodson, Allen & Seibert I900, I904; Almirante, Cooper 93, I93. CANAL ZONE: Chagres, Fendler I36; Barro Colorado Island, Shattuck II38; Fuertes House, Woodworth & Vestal 663; Mindi, Sutton Hayes 6I6. CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Pittier 3345; around Caldera, Pittier 3357; Bajo Mona, Davidson 522. COCLE: above Penonome, Williams 258. DARIEN: Chepigana, Cana-Cuasi Trail, Davidson & Terry I572. PANAMA: Sabanas Road, Gillespie P-40.
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