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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
Species TALAUMA GLORIENSIS Pittier
PlaceOfPublication Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 13: 94. 1910
Synonym Magnolia allenii Standl. in Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 22: 331. 1940.
Description Tree up to 30 m. tall; branchlets glabrous. Leaf lamina ovate to ovate-elliptic or elliptic-oblong (occasionally obovate), cuneate to obtuse at the base, rounded to obtuse at the apex and sometimes slightly emarginate, up to about 31 cm. long and 16 cm. broad, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves about 10-14 on each side of the midrib; petiole up about 5 cm. long, glabrous; stipules glabrous. Flower bud ovoid; bracts and peduncle glabrous. Tepals 9, 3-merous, greenish-white or creamy-white, glabrous; outer 3 oblong to oblong-elliptic, about 4-4.5 cm. long. Stamens about 13-15 mm. long. Gynoecium ovoid; carpels about 25-36, puberulous. Fruit ovoid; fruiting carpels up to about 4 cm. long, often becoming bifid at the apex.
Habit Tree
Distribution Mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama, at about 1000 m. altitude. According to Pittier this species serves as a shade tree in the coffee plantations at La Gloria in the Cartago, Province of Costa Rica.
Elevation 1000 m.
Specimen COCLE: hills north of El Valle de Anton, alt. 1000 m., Allen 2200, 3574.
Note The Panama plant was described by Standley as a new species of Magnolia, M. allenii; his description was inaccurate in its reference to free stipules, connate bracts and glabrous carpels.
 
 
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