(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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Species
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TALAUMA GLORIENSIS Pittier
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PlaceOfPublication
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Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 13: 94. 1910
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Synonym
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Magnolia allenii Standl. in Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 22: 331. 1940.
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Description
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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.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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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.
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Elevation
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1000 m.
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Specimen
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COCLE: hills north of El Valle de Anton, alt. 1000 m., Allen 2200, 3574.
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Note
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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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