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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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CLIDEMIA HIRTA (L.) D. Don
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PlaceOfPublication
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Mem. Wern. Soc. 4:309. 1823.
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Synonym
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Melastoma hirtum Linn. Sp. P1. 390. (Partihn). 1753.
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Description
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Shrub 1-3 m. tall, hirsute throughout with simple hairs; petioles 0.5-3 cm. long; leaf-blades ovate, 5-15 cm. long, often unequal in each pair, short-acuminate, serrulate or entire, rounded to subcordate at base, 5- to 7-nerved; flowers numerous in loosely branched cymes 3-5 cm. long, 5-merous or more commonly 6-merous; hypanthium campanulate, about 5 mm. long; calyx about 1 mm. long, truncate or obscurely lobed, the exterior teeth slender, projecting about 3 mm.; petals white, oblong-obovate, 8-11 mm. long; anthers about 5 mm. long, the connective minutely prolonged below the filament into a dorsal spur; ovary glabrous.
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Habit
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Shrub
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Distribution
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Southern Mexico, throughout the West Indies and Central America, southward in South America to Bolivia and southern Brazil; introduced as a weed in the Old World tropics.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel ii8. CANAL ZONE: Ancon Hill, Woodson, Allen, d Seibert I334, Seibert 40I. PANAMA: near Arraijan, Woodson, Allen & Seibert I336; Isla Taboga, Woodson, Allen d Seibert I546.
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