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(Last Modified On 10/29/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/29/2012)
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Species
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CALATHEA FOLIOSA Rowlee ex Woodson
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 29:332. 1942.
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Description
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Plants rather slender, caulescent, about 1 m. tall or less; stem leaves densely whorled beneath the flowering peduncle, oblong-oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, base obtuse, 25-35 cm. long, 7-8 cm. broad, glabrous except the puberulent mid- rib beneath; petiole about 1 cm. long, wholly callous; sheaths 15-20 cm. long, obtuse, glabrous; spikes subglobose, about 6 cm. long; peduncle about 9 cm. long, glabrous; bracts about 25, more or less imbricated, broadly ovate, shortly acumi- nate, 2-3 cm. long, densely tomentellous without; flowers about 3.0-3.5 cm. long, yellowish.
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Distribution
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Panama, probably also in adjacent Costa Rica, in lowland thickets.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Farm No. 6, near Almirante, Blair 1016.
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Note
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Noteworthy for the whorled stem leaves. Possibly a form of C. indecora.
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