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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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LEANDRA DICHOTOMA (D. Don) Cogn.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Mart. Fl. Bras. 144:200. 1886.
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Synonym
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Clideinia dichotoma D. Don, in Mem. Wern. Soc. 4:307. 1823.
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Description
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Shrub 1-3 m. tall; younger stems, petioles, and axis of the inflorescence densely hirsute with straight or curved, distinctly retrorse or retrorsely outwardly curved, simple bristles; petioles 2-5 cm. long; leaf-blades ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong or oblong, 1-2 dm. long, 5-12 cm. wide, acuminate, denticulate and strongly ciliate, broadly obtuse to rounded at base, commonly 7-nerved, more or less hirsute on both sides, especially on the nerves beneath; panicles 1-2 dm. long, the branches becoming widely divaricate and crooked, with secund 5-merous flowers; hypan- thium subglobose, densely hirsute; sepals minute, depressed-triangular, the exterior teeth subulate, about 1 mm. long; petals white, 2.5-3 mm. long.
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Habit
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Shrub
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Distribution
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Guatemala and British Honduras to Panama and Bolivia.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Water Valley, von Wedel 1419; Old Bank Island, von Wedel 1971; vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 1075; Fish Creek Mountains, von Wedel 2370; Cricamola, Almirante region, Cooper 514. CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Aviles 913, Bailey F Bailey 470.
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