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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 GRACILIS Triana
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PlaceOfPublication
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Trans. Linn. Soc. 28:107. 1871.
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Description
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Shrub to 5 m. tall, glabrous or essentially so throughout; petiole 5-10 (rarely 25) mm. long; leaf-blades thin, bright green up to 10 cm. long, oblong or elliptic, a third to nearly half as wide, the members of a pair often unequal, acuminate to a blunt tip, entire, acute at the base, 3-nerved; panicles slender, up to 15 cm. long and 2 cm. in diameter, the numerous short branches seldom again branched and bearing 1-5 sessile flowers; hypanthium campanulate, 3 mm. long, costate in fruit; calyx closed in bud, at anthesis ruptured nearly to the torus into 3-5 broadly triangular lobes; exterior teeth none; petals white, obovate-oblong, 3 mm. long; stamens nearly isomorphic, differing in size; anthers linear, 2.5-3 or 3.5-4 mm. long, the connective very briefly prolonged below the thecae into two lateral lobes, stigma capitate.
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Habit
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Shrub
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Distribution
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Nicaragua to Colombia.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Fish Creek, von Wedel 2I90, 2i96, 2234; Old Bank Island, von Wedel I922, 2i66. COCLE: vicinity of El Valle, Allen 237.
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