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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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MICONIA COSTARICENSIS Cogn.
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PlaceOfPublication
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DC. Monogr. Phan. 7:887. 1891.
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Description
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Shrub to 4 m. tall, the stems, petioles, leaves, inflorescence, and hypanthia densely hirsute with simple red-purple bristles up to 3 mm. long; petioles 5-20 mm. long; leaf-blades ovate-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, up to 15 cm. long, two- fifths to half as wide, acuminate, obscurely denticulate or crenulate, obtuse to rounded at base, 5-pli-nerved or sometimes merely 5-nerved; panicles 2-5 cm. long, congested; hypanthium cup-shaped, about 2.5 mm. long to the torus; calyx- tube prolonged about 0.5 mm.; calyx-lobes depressed-triangular, about 0.5 mm. long from the sinus; exterior teeth stoutly subulate, hirsute, about 2 mm. long; petals pink, about 3 mm. long; stamens isomorphic; anthers oblong, blunt, 4-celled; stigma truncate.
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Habit
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Shrub
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Bajo Chorro, Boquete district, Davidson 239; Bajo Mono-Robalo trail, 1500-2100 m., Allen 4823.
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