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(Last Modified On 3/8/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/8/2013)
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Species
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THESPESIA POPULNEA (L.) Solander ex Correa
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Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 9: 290, pl. 25 (1). 1807.
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Synonym
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Hibiscus populneus L., Sp. PI. 694. 1753. Malvaviscus populneus (L.) Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. 2: 253, pl. 135(3). 1791.
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Description
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Shrub or small tree up to 7 m tall, the branchlets densely lepidote especially when young. Leaves with petioles 4-12 cm long, lepidote, the stipules narrowly ovate to filiform, 5-7 mm long; blade broadly ovate, cordate at the base, acute to long-acuminate at the apex, entire-margined, up to 14(20) cm long and 12 cm broad, leathery, 5- to 7-palminerved, sparsely lepidote to glabrescent on both sides, the main veins prominent beneath. Flowers with the pedicel terete, inarticulated (or obscurely articulated?), 1.5-3.5 cm long, lepidote; epicalyx bractlets usually 3, subulate, ca 10-12 mm long and 2 mm broad, lepidote, early caducous; calyx trun- cate or shortly 5-denticulate, ca 8-10 mm high and 15 mm in diam, densely lepidote, more or less expanded in fruit; petals obovate, ca 5 cm long and 3.5 cm broad, yellow with a darker base, fading purple; staminal tube ca 3 cm long, 5-lobulate at the apex, the lobes ca 2 mm long, filamentiferous on the upper %3, the filaments 2-7 mm long, the anthers inequilaterally hippocrepiform; style exceed- ing the staminal tube, ca 3 cm long. Capsule depressed-globose, 1.5-2 cm high and 2-4.5 cm in diam, leathery, lepidote, indehiscent; seeds trigonous-obovoid, com- pressed, ca 1 cm long, more or less densely tomentellous.
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Habit
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Shrub tree
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Pantropical; generally along sea-shores; cultivated as a shade tree in Panama. CANAL ZONE: Hospital Grounds at Ancon, alt 20-80 m, Pittier 2745 (US); Balboa, planted, Standley 30820 (F, US). COLON: Colon, in park, Rose 22044 (US).
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