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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 RUBRA (Aubl.) Mart.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Nov. Gen. & Spec. 3:152. t. 281. 1829.
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Synonym
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Melastorna rubra Aubl. P1. Guian. 1:416. 1775.
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Description
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Suffrutescent or woody, up to 2 m. tall, often blooming when young and herbaceous, the stem and foliage densely hirsute or villous throughout; petioles none, or up to 3 cm. long, usually manifest but short; leaf-blades thick, oblong- lanceolate to broadly elliptic, commonly 6-12 cm. long and about half as wide, obtuse to short-acuminate, at base cuneate to subcordate, 5-pli-nerved; flowers few, sessile in dense axillary glomerules, 4-merous; hypanthium cylindric, 3-4 mm. long; exterior teeth triangular below, narrowed to a short, divergent, subulate tip, equaling or slightly exceeding and more or less concealing the sepals; petals obovate- oblong, 2-3 mm. long, white or pinkish; anthers subulate, 3-4 mm. long.
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Habit
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woody herb
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Distribution
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Tropical Mexico to Panama, chiefly at low altitude; very abundant in the lowlands of South America as far south as southern Brazil and Bolivia.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Anc6n Hill, Williams I, Killip I2IOI, Piper 5558. CHIRIQUi: Boquete, Davidson 676, Woodson 0 Schery 784. COCLiE: vicinity of Nati, 50 m., Allen 843; vicinity of Penonom6, Williams 92; between Oi and Corteza, Pittier 5097. PANAMA: San Jose Island, Johnston 34, Erlanson 382, 428; Taboga Island, Macbride 2824. VERAGUAS: between Cafiazas and the Cordillera Central, 300-600 m., Allen i65.
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