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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 SCHLIMII Triana
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PlaceOfPublication
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Trans. Linn. Soc. 28:102. 1871.
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Description
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Small tree, up to 10 m. tall, the younger stems, petioles, lower leaf-surface, panicle, and hypanthia thinly stellate-tomentose; petioles about 1 cm. long; leaf- blades lanceolate, as much as 17 cm. long but usually much shorter, about two- fifths as wide, acuminate, remotely denticulate, more or less ciliate, acute at the base, 5-pli-nerved, glabrous above; panicles relatively few-flowered, 3-8 cm. long, divaricately branched; flowers 6-merous, sessile at the end of the branchlets; hypanthium broadly campanulate, about 3.5 mm. long (measured on the axis); calyx-tube flaring, about 2 mm. long, truncate or undulate, stellate within and without; exterior teeth minute, conic; petals white, about 10 mm. long, broadly obovate; stamens isomorphic; anthers oblong, blunt, 4-celled, 4.5-5 mm. long, opening by one minute terminal pore; connective simple; ovary 5-celled; style elongate; stigma capitate.
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Habit
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tree
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Distribution
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British Honduras to Colombia.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Dunlap I03. CHIRIQUI: between Concepcion and El Volcan, White 3I2; Progreso, Cooper & Slater 297. COCLE: vicinity of El Valle de Anton, Allen I774, 2496; between Las Margaritas and El Valle, Woodson, Allen C Seibert I24I. DARIEN: Cana and vicinity, 600-1650 m., Williams 759.
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