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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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Species
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ADENARIA FLORIBUNDA HBK.
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Nov. Gen. & Spec. 6:188. 1823.
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Synonym
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Adenaria Purpurata HBK. lc. cit. 185. 1823. Adenaria grisleoides HBK. loc. cit. 1823. Antherylium floribundurn (HBK.) Spreng. Syst. 2:475. 1825. Antherylium grisleoides (HBK.) Spreng. loc. cit. 1825. Antherylium purp-uratuns (HBK.) Spreng. loc. cit. 1825. Adenaria parviflora Hook. Ic. P1. 2:116. 1837. Adenaria lanceolata Beurling, in Akad. Handl. Stockh. 124. 1854. Adenaria floribunda var. a forma purpurata (HBK.) Koehne, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 132:344. 1877. Adenaria floribunda var a forma grisleoides (HBK.) Koehne, loc. cit. 1877. Adenaria purpurata var. australis Griseb. in Lorentz, Veget. Nordeste Entrerios 116, 135. 1878. Adenaria floribunda var. parviflora Koehne, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 4:406. 1883. Adenaria floribunda var. microphylla Koehne, in Engl. Pflanzenr. 4:247. 1903.
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Description
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Erect shrubs or trees to 2.5 m. tall, young branches shortly villous and glan- dular, the bark becoming shredded whitish-silver. Leaves lanceolate, acute to acuminate at the apex, obtuse to obtusely attenuate at the base, 2.0-13.5 cm. long, 0.6-5.0 cm. wide, above dark green to purplish red, glabrous to minutely puber- ulent, paler beneath, villous on veins, the primary lateral veins forming an indistinct and sometimes interrupted submarginal vein; petiole 0.5-5.0 cm. long; stipules to 1.5 mm. long. Cymes gathered into axillary umbelliform clusters; peduncle 1-7 mm. long; bracts in two superposed pairs; pedicel 5-7 mm. long, occasionally subtended by a minute bracteole. Flowers trimorphic: short-styled, intermediate- styled and long-styled. Intermediate-styled flowers: hypanthium campanulate 2-4 mm. long, 3.25-4.0 mm. broad at the orifice, tomentose and glandular without, tomentose within, the calyx lobes more or less deltoid; petals 3.5-4.0 mm. long, 1.0-1.5 mm. wide, glandular without, rose or white; stamens equal or occasionally alternately unequal with antesepalous stamens one-third longer than the ante- petalous, exserted, the anthers 0.5 mmJ long, the filaments (when equal) 4.5-5.5 mm. long, glabrous, united at the base; ovary turbinately globose gradually nar- rowed into a cuneate gynophore, 1.75-2.0 -mm. -long, glabrous or villous, upper half glandular, the placentation axile; style 1.0-1.5 mm. long, glandular toward the base. Short-styled like the intermediate-styled except: hypanthium 2.0-3.25 mm. broad at the orifice; petals 2.0-2.75 mm. long, 0.5-1.25 mm. wide; stamens equal, exserted, the filaments 3.0-4.25 mm. long, glabrous; ovary narrowly ovoid, 1.0- 1.25 mm. long, diameter 0.25-0.5 mm., upper half villous and glandular; style 0.5-1.0 mm. long. Long-styled flowers like the intermediate-styled except: petals 2.5 mm. long, 1.0-1.5 mm. wide; stamens equal, included, the filaments 1.5-2.5 mm. long; ovary turbinately globose, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, diameter 1-2 mm., upper half villous and glandular, the gynophore reduced; style 1.5-2.0 mm. long. Fruit an indehiscent ovoid capsule; seeds about 1 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide.
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Note
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Known as fruta de pavo in Panama.
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Common
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fruta de pavo
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: vicinity of Miraflores Lake, White & White i87; mouth of Cocoli River, P. White I03; Chagres, Fendler 3I3; Bohio, Christopherson I38; Colon to Empire, Panama Railroad, Crawford 455; near Gatin, Goldman I874; at the town of Gatin, Hayes I43, s. n.; Frijoles, Bro. Heriberto I7; between Chagres Batteries & Fort San Lorenzo, Fort Sherman Military Reservation, Maxon d Valentine 6995; Old Experiment Station, 3 miles east of Panama City, Maxon, Harvey C Valentine 7080, 7094; Empire to Mandinga, Piper 5487; Pedro Miguel, Piper 5513; around Gamboa, alt. 20-100 m., Pittier 34I2; Gatu'n, Stevens I345; Las Cascadas Plantation, near Summit, Standley 25806, 29602; vicinity of Fort Sherman, Standley 30935; Darien Station, Standley 3I544; Gamboa, Standley 285io; hills west of the Canal, near Gatu'n, Standley 27242; near Fort Randolph, Standley 28677; Anc'n Hill, Standley 25I55; Barro Colorado Island, Kenoyer 462, Bailey & Bailey 265; Barro Colorado Island, Miller Trail, Shattuck 48I. PANAMA: between Matias Hernandez and Juan Diaz, Standley 3I970; roadside near Chepo, Dodge i0720.
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This species has been reported as being rarely 3- or 6-merous. This is not surprising in view of the variation between 4- and 5-merous flowers within the same cluster. The Panamanian material examined does not demonstrate the 3- or 6-merous condition. Unusual stamen number is often found, that is, one more stamen than usual. This is due to chorisis, generally in the antesepalous whorl.
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