(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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TOPOBEA REGELIANA Cogn.
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PlaceOfPublication
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DC. Monogr. Phan. 7:1085. 1891.
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Description
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Tree 10 m. tall, the youngest parts coarsely furfuraceous, otherwise glabrous; petioles slender, 2-4 cm. long; leaf-blades broadly elliptic to obovate-rotund, up to 11 cm. long, half to three-fourths as wide, apiculate, obtuse to subrotund at base, 5-nerved, the outer pair submarginal, the secondary veins 2-3 mm. apart; flowers solitary or paired, on pedicels 3-6 mm. long; bracts distinct to the base, the outer obovate-oblong, obtuse, 4-6 mm. long, the inner much broader and slightly longer; hypanthium about 7 mm. long; calyx nearly erect, about 2 mm. long, its lobes obscure or obsolete.
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Distribution
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Panama and probably also Costa Rica.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: vicinity of Salamanca Hydrographic Station, Rio Pequeni, 80 m., Woodson, Allen 0 Seibert 1589; Chagres, Fendler 295.
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