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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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HIBISCUS FEROX Hook.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Curt. Bot. Mag. 74: t. 4401. 1848.-Fig. 2 (C,D).
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Description
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Shrub or small tree up to at least 6 m high, the branches and branchlets stel- late-puberulus and sparsely aculeate, the prickles short, straight and stout. Leaves long-petiolate, the petiole stout, constricted at the base, up to 34 cm long, sparsely stellate-pubescent and aculeate, the stipules very large and foliaceous; blade circular or nearly so, deeply cordate at the base, rounded at the apex, coarsely and sharply dentate or dentate-echinulate at the margin, up to 42 cm in diam, membranous, slightly discolor, appressed-stellate-puberulus and sparsely aculeate especially along the veins on both surfaces, the indumentum denser beneath, 5- or 7-palminerved, the venation impressed above and prominent beneath. Flowers crowded toward the apex of the branchlets, axillary, in few-flowered fascicles, the pedicels short to long, shortly stellate-puberulus and hispid-echinate, the fruiting pedicel up to 16 cm long; epicalyx of 7-10 bractlets, these narrowly ovate, almost free to the base, acute at the apex, 2.5-3.7 cm long and 0.5-0.9 cm wide, stellate-puberulus and hispid- echinate or not, accrescent; calyx tubular, dentate, 10-nerved, 2.5-5 cm long, much accrescent and up to 13 cm in fruit, fleshy and red, stellate-puberulus and densely hispid-echinate, the teeth deltoid and 0.5-1 cm long; petals linear-spatulate, spread- ing above, 5-8 cm long and 0.8-1.3 cm wide, yellow; staminal tube shorter than or equalling the corolla, antheriferous on the upper part; style slightly longer than the staminal tube, the stigmas densely fimbrillate. Capsule enveloped by the much- accrescent calyx, oblong-cylindric, 5-angulate, ca 5 cm long, the valves rigid- chartaceous, strongly reticulate-veined, nearly glabrous; seeds reniform, ca 2.5 mm long, minutely puberulus.
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Habit
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Shrub tree
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Distribution
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Costa Rica to Colombia; along river banks, in clay or gravelly wet soil.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Alhajuela, Rio Chagres, Pittier 2345 (US); between Peluca Hydrographic Station and Quebrada Peluca, along Rio Boqueron, Steyermark & Allen 17223 (MO). COLON: Rio Viejo, vic of Puerto Pilon, alt 10 m, Allen 4098 (MO). DARIEN: Cana and vic, elev 2000-6500 ft, R. S. Williams 819 (US)
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