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(Last Modified On 1/10/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/10/2013)
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Species
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MICONIA ALBICANS (Sw.) Triana.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Trans. Linn. Soc. 28:116. 1871.
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Synonym
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Melastoma albicans Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 70. 1788.
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Description
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Shrub or small tree to 6 m. tall; younger branches finely cinereous-tomentulose, soon glabrescent; petioles stout, tomentulose, 5-15 mm. long; leaf-blades sub- coriaceous, oblong, ovate-oblong, or elliptic, 7-15 cm. long, about two-fifths as wide, obtuse to short-acuminate, entire, emarginate or subcordate at base, 5-nerved, the outer pair commonly submarginal, above when mature glabrous, dark green, and shining, beneath closely and finely cinereous-tomentulose; panicle 8-20 cm. long, freely branched, cinereous or ferruginous; flowers 5-merous, sessile, secund and alternate on the ultimate branches of the panicle; hypanthium about 2 mm. long, densely tomentose; calyx-tube prolonged about 0.5 mm., its lobes very short, triangular; petals obovate, about 3 mm. long; stamens nearly isomorphic; con- nective briefly prolonged below the thecae and dilated into an oblique cordate organ; stigma capitate.
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Habit
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Shrub tree
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Distribution
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Widely distributed from southern Mexico and the West Indies to Bolivia and southern Brazil.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUi: Boquete, 1200 m., Davidson 678. COCLfE: between Las Margaritas and El Valle, Woodson, Allen d Seibert 1250. PANAMA: in lianos at Chorrera, White 178; Isla Taboga, Woodson, Allen d Seibert 1445; San Jos6 Island, Erlanson 230, 283. VERAGUAS: trail between Cafiazas and the Cordillera Central, 300-600 m., Allen 204.
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