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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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BLAKEA PARVIFOLIA GI.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Phytologia 3:357. 1950.
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Description
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Small tree, up to 10 m. tall, glabrous throughout. Petioles 5-8 mm. long. Leaf-blades cuneate-obovate, 2.5-4 cm. long, about half as wide, rounded above to a short apiculum, long-cuneate at base, 3-nerved. Flowers solitary in the axils on pedicels about 1 cm. long. Bracts separate to the base, oblong-ovate, very blunt, much shorter than the hypanthium. Hypanthium almost spherical, 3 mm. long. Calyx-lobes depressed triangular, about 1 mm. long, acute. Petals pink, oblong- obovate, 8-9 mm. long. Anthers semi-ovate, about 3 mm. long, the connective neither elevated nor spurred.
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Habit
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tree
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Native
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Endemic to Panama.
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Distribution
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Panama
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Specimen
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COCLE: crest of Cerro Pajita, El Valle de Ant6n, 1100 m., Allen 3761.
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