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(Last Modified On 10/15/2013)
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(Last Modified On 10/15/2013)
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Species
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Malpighia romeroana Cuatr.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Webbia 13: 561. f. 33: 1, m; f. 34. 1958.
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Note
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TYPE: Colombia, Santander, near Barrancabermeja, Romero Castaheda 4894 (COL, holotype; US, isotype).
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Synonym
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Malpighia mayana Lundell, Wrightia 5: 242. 1976. TYPE: Guatemala, Peten, La Cumbre, Lundell & Contreras 19882 (LL, holotype, not seen).
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Description
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Erect shrub 1-2(-5) m tall, rarely a climber; young branches reddish to violet, glabrous or essentially so. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acu- minate to cuspidate at apex, acute at base, (9-)10-17(-20) cm long, (2-)3-6.5 (-10) cm wide, smooth or sometimes upon drying somewhat crinkled or puckered above, midvein very prominent; petioles robust, glabrous or nearly so, (2.5-)3- 4(-5) mm long; stipules usually united, appearing as one, dark red or black, strigillose, linear-lanceolate, 2-3(-4) mm long. Inflorescence a (4-)10-30(-50)- flowered, lax, raceme-like panicle; somewhat strigillose at least when young, flowering axis, common peduncle and rachis (1-)2.5-6 cm long; common pedun- cle robust, (1-)1.5-2.5(-4) cm long, bibracteolate near the middle; rachis (0.5-)1- 2(-2.5) cm long; flowering peduncles 2-4(-5) mm long; bracts 1.5-2.5(-3.5) mm long; bracteoles (0.5-)1(-1.5) mm long; pedicel (5-)7-11 mm long, 2-3 times as long as the flowering peduncles. Flowers 1-1.5 cm diam.; buds 3-5 mm diam., keeled, keels ca. 0.5-0.7 mm wide, decurrent at the apex; sepals glabrous, glands 6, 2-3(-4) mm long, as long as or slightly shorter than the sepals; posterior petal (6-)6.5-8(-8.5) mm long, lateral petals 6-7 mm long, anterior petals 4.5-6 mm long; filaments (2-)2.5-3(-3.5) mm long, lateral filaments straight or somewhat curved inwards, obviously thicker than the others, shorter or longer than those opposite the sepals; anthers ca. 1 mm long, pollination gap ca. 1 mm long; ovary obviously 3-lobed; the styles uncinate at the apex, lateral styles 2-4.5 mm long, obviously thicker and usually 0.5 mm longer than the anterior, curved inwards at anthesis, the anterior styles straight or nearly so. Fruit pyramidal-globose, 1- 1.2 mm diam.; pyrenes ovoid, 7-10 mm long, 5-7 mm wide; dorsal wing sharp, entire, 1-2 mm wide, lateral wings thick and tuberculate or none, intermediate wings absent.
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Habit
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shrub
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Note
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Malpighia romeroana grows in wet to swampy forests and riverine areas, in lowlands with mean annual precipitation 115-400 cm.
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Distribution
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ranges from Mexico (Nayarit) south to Colombia.
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Note
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In Panama it is found in wetter parts of tropical moist forest and premontane wet forest. The species flowers from August to October, during the second half of the rainy season.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Trail to Rio Abajo, 3 km SW of Almirante, 100-200 m, Nee & Hansen 14114 (MO). Water Valley, Wedel 911 (MO). CANAL ZONE: Fort San Lorenzo, Allen 5122 (F). Mojinga Swamp, lower Chagres River, Bartlett & Lasser 16857, 16859 (both MO). Road S-11, NW of Escobal, Croat 12454 (F, G, MO, SCZ). N base of Mindi Hills along Quebrada Morito, Johnston 1635 (MO). End of Pipeline Road, Mori & Kallunki 1726 (MICH, MO, PMA, RSA, US). Pipeline Road, 16.8 km from Gamboa Gate, Mori & Kallunki 1766 (K, MO). Trail along Rio Petupie from road to Fort Sherman from Gatun Locks (S2), Mori & Kallunki 2698 (MO, PMA). Fort Sherman, Tyson & Blum 1673, 1674 (MO, SCZ). Old Fort San Lorenzo, Tyson 2227 (MO, SCZ). BARRO COLORADO ISLAND: Bangham 518 (F, US); Croat 5985, 6716, 8207, 12486 (all F, MO, NY, SCZ); Foster 666 (PMA); Shattuck 511 (F, MO); Weaver & Foster 1590 (MO, PMA), 1617 (DUKE, PMA). COL6N: E of Santa Rita Ridge lumber region, Correa 636 (MO). Rio Guanche above bridge, 50-200 m, Croat 36956 (MO). Along Rio Viejo, between Portobelo Road and Quebrada Ruiz, 4 km N of Puerto Pil6n, 5 m, Nee 7198 (MO, PMA US). DARIEN: El Real, 15 m, Allen 971 (G, MO). Rio Pirre, Bristan 1490 (MO). Near El Real, Duke & Bristan 286 (MO, OS). PANAMA: El Llano, Duke 5511 (CAS, MO), 5851 (G, MO, PMA, US). Just S of La Capitana, Tyson 6767 (MO, PMA). SAN BLAS: Canal just N of Mandinga Airport, Duke 14836 (MO, OS). VERAGUAS: 10 km NW of Santa Fe, road to Calovebora, Mori & Bolten 7647 (F, MO, NY, US).
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