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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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PAVONIA PENDULIFLORA (Standley) Standley
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Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 4: 231. 1929.-Fig. 6 (F).
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Synonym
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Malache penduliflora Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 117. 1916.
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Description
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Shrub 1-2.5 m high, the stem slender, branched, more or less densely puberulus with stiff, tawny, stellate hairs. Leaves short-petiolate, the petiole stout, up to 12 mm long, densely stellate-hirtellous, the stipules linear-subulate; blade asymmetri- cal, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, oblong-ovate or sometimes obovate, oblique at the base, gradually long-acuminate at the apex, serrulate to denticulate at the margin, up to 20 cm long and 7.5 cm wide, 3- to 4- to 5-palminerved, scabridulous or not, more or less densely stellate-hirtellous on both sides, the indumentum always denser on the lower surface, the venation prominulous beneath. Flowers axillary, solitary, pendulous (always?), long-pedicellate, the pedicel slender, generally slightly geniculate above the middle, 3-5 cm long, densely stellate-hirtellous, the fruiting pedicel up to 10 cm long; epicalyx of 8-10 bractlets, these nearly distinct, narrowly ovate, acute, 5.5-7 mm long and 0.8-1.5 mm wide, more or less densely stellate-hirtellous; calyx campanulate, lobed to about the middle, 6.5-8 mm long, more or less densely stellate-hirtellous, the lobes deltoid, acute, 3.5-4 mm long and 2-3.5 mm wide at the base; petals oibovate-cuneate, asymmetrical, rounded-truncate to rounded-crenulate --at the apex, 14-16 mm long and 9.5-11 mm wide, pink; staminal tube 5-dissected at the apex, 7.5-9 mm long, antheriferous on the upper 1/3, the filaments maximum 1 mm long; style branches exceeding the staminal tube, the stigmas capitellate and minutely fimbrillate. Mericarps broadly triquetrous- obovoid, ca 8 mm long and 5.5 mm wide, rigid-chartaceous, the back convex, reticu- late, glabrous and with 3 prominulous, longitudinal ribs, 1 central and 2 marginal, each bearing a stout, retrorsely hispidulous awn, the central awn apical and 7-8 mm long, the marginal markedly below the apex, shorter or not and 5.5-8 mm long; seeds trigonous-reniform, 6-7 mm long, glabrous.
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Habit
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Shrub
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Distribution
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Endemic to the Province of Chiriqui, where it grows in humid forest at high elevations
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Elevation
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up to 2000 m.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: vic of Casita Alta, Volcan de Chiriqui, alt ca 1500-2000 m, Woodson et al. 983 (F, MO); around Los Signas Camp, southern slope of Cerro de la Horqueta, alt ca 1700 m, Pittier 3188 (holotype US); Cerro Horqueta, alt 6500 ft, Christine & W. von Hagen 2041 (NY); Bajo Chorro, alt 1900 m, M. E. Davidson 54 (F, MO, US), Woodson & Schery 662 (MO), 705 (MO); vic of Bajo Mona and Quebrada Chiquero, alt 1500 m, Woodson & Schery 529 (MO, US); Palo Alto, just E of Boquete, alt 5000 ft, Stern et al. 1033 (MO, US); slope of Sierra Boquete, alt 4500 ft, Bro. Maurice 877 (MO, US); along the Rio Ladrillo, above El Boquete, Pittier 3287 (US).
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