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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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TIBOUCHINA LONGIFOLIA (Vahl) Baill.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Adansonia. 12:74. 1877.
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Synonym
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Rhexia longifolia Vahl Eclog. Am. 1:39. 1796.
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Description
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Stems woody, erect, freely branched, densely pilose with stout, appressed, ascending, or spreading hairs mostly 1.5-3 mm. long; petioles slender, 5-20 mm. long; leaf-blades thin to firm, ovate-oblong to narrowly lanceolate, 3-10 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, essentially entire, at base narrowly to broadly cuneate or rarely obtuse, 5-nerved, the lateral nerves confluent toward the base, densely or sparsely, usually stiffly, pilose above, beneath softly villous on the surface, more or less strigose on the veins; flowers in small cymes terminating the stem and branches, often very numerous, forming large panicles; hypanthium broadly cam- panulate, 3-3.5 mm. long, 10-ribbed, densely setose, the hairs mostly ascending; sepals triangular-subulate to linear, setose and ciliate, shorter than, equaling, or slightly exceeding the hypanthium, usually recurved; petals white or purplish, 5-7 mm. long; stamens nearly isomorphic; thecae straight, 2-3 or 1.5 to 2.5 mm. long; connectives straight or curved, 0.3-0.7 mm. long, including the small or minute basal lobes; fruiting hypanthia nodding.
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Distribution
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Southern Mexico to Panama and southward to Brazil and Bolivia; Cuba, His- paniola, and occasional, possibly introduced in other parts of the West Indies; the most abundant and most widely distributed species of the genus.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Carleton I27; Changuinola Valley, Potrero Island, DunlaP 73. CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Aviles io5, Woodwortb d Vestal 672; Gatuin, Hayes 3; Chagres, Fendler I29. CHIRIQUI: Boquete, Davidson 626, Terry d Terry i65o. COCLE: Valle de Anton, 600-800 m., Allen 2855. DARIEN: Chepigana district, Terry d Terry I392; Cana and vicinity, Williams 733. PANAMA: vicinity of San Carlos, 0-10 m., Allen II47.
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