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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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UPHEA EPILOBIFOLIA Koehne
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Mart. Fl. Bras. 132:223. 1877.
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Synonym
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Cuphea epilobifolia var. costaricensis Koehne, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 1 :457. 1881. Cuphea epilobifolia var. costaricensis forma canescens Koehne, in Bot. Gaz. 20:4. 1895. Cuphea epilobifolia var. costaricensis forma tonduzii Koehne, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 39:156. 1900. Cuphea epilobifolia var. venezuelana Koehne, in Engl. Pflanzenr. 4:112. 1903. Cuphea epilobifolia var. venezuelana forma gollmeri Koehne, loc. cit. 1903. Cuphea epilobifolia var. venezuelana forma lindenii Koehne, loc. cit. 1903. Cuphea epilobifolia var. costaricensis forma hoffmannii. Koehne, in Engl. Pflanzenr. 4:112. 1903. Cuphea epilobif olia var. costaricensis forma endresii Koehne, loc. cit. I 1 3. 19 0 3. Cuphea epilobifolia var. caquetae Sprague, in Ann. Bot. 17:161, t. II, f. I-6. 1903. Parsonsia epilobifolia Standl. in Contrib. U. S. Nati. Herb. 23:1018. 1924.
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Description
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Woody shrubs to 2 m. tall, apical portions of branches densely wooly or at least with tomentose lines decurrent from the paired nodes above. Leaves elliptic, sessile or subsessile, acute at the apex, attenuate at the base, 3-14 cm. long, 0.8-3.0 cm. wide, both surfaces puberulent to strigose, the costa glabrous to brown-strigose beneath, the submarginal vein sometimes conspicuous, sometimes bearing brown strigose hairs, the margin entire; stipules somewhat persistent. Cymes gathered into terminal bracteate racemiform or paniculiform clusters; flowers decussate, infra-interbracteal; bracts lanceolate, to 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, puberulent, coarsely ciliate, caducous; peduncle 0.75-1.0 mm. long; pedicel 1-5 mm. long; bracteoles 2, minute. Hypanthium ampullaceous, 4.0-7.5 mm. long, median diameter 0.75-1.5 mm., oblique at the orifice, the spur straight to recurved, densely strigose or hirsute, sometimes insect-infested and -becoming swollen and bladdery. Petals 6, 1.25-2.0 mm. long, 0.25-1.25 mm. wide, pink to violet. Stamens 11, the anterior 9 alternately unequal, antesepalous exserted, antepetalous included to slightly exserted, the filaments villous except for the 3 anterior antesepalous, or all glabrous; disc unilateral, strongly reflexed. Ovary broadly ovoid, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, villous; style 2.75-5.5 mm. long, villous, exserted. Seeds 4-6, suborbicular to orbicular, 1.0-1.5 mm. long, 1.0-1.5 mm. wide, emarginate to slightly marginate.
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shrubs
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela.
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Dunlap 2i5a; Carleton 2I5; Fish Creek Hills, vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, Von Wedel 2I94, 2458; Sibubi Falls, Sixaola Valley, Rowlee & Rowlee 379. COCLE: vicinity of El Valle, 800-1000 m., north rim, Allen 2I5; north rim of El Valle de Ant6n, near Cerro Turega, alt. 650-700 m., Woodson d Schery i6i; El Valle de Ant6n, floor, vicinity Finca Tomas Arias, alt. 600 m., Allen 3624; El Valle de Ant6n, along Rio Indio trail, 5 00-700 m., Hunter & Allen 359. CANAL ZONE: forest between Peluca Hydrographic Station and Quebrada Peluca, along Rio Boqueron, 70- m., Steyermarl & Allen I7236.
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