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(Last Modified On 3/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/7/2013)
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Species
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GUAREA GLABRA Vahl,
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Eclog. Am. 3: 8. 1807.
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Synonym
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Guarea Swartzii DC., Prodr. 1: 624. 1824. Guarea excelsa H. B. K., Nov. Gen. Sp. P1. 7: 227. 1825. Guarea Schomburgkii C. DC., Monogr. Phaner. 1: 565. 1878. Guarea Donnell-Smithii C. DC., Bull. Herb. Boiss., ser. 2, 5: 419. 1905. Guarea syringoides C. H. Wright, Kew Bull. 1906: 3. 1906. Guarea Rovirosae C. DC., Ann. Conserv. Jard. Rot. Geneve 10: 145. 1907. Guarea brevianthera C. DC., Smithson. Misc. Coll. 68(6): 1. 1917. Guarea ternifoliola C. DC., loc. cit. 2. 1917. Guarea parva C. DC., loc. cit. 3. 1917. Guarea racemiformis Blake, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 241. 1919. Guarea heterophylla Blake, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 34: 116. 1921. Guarea polyanthli Blake, loc. cit. 117. 1921. Guarea chiricana Standley, Trop. Woods 16: 18. 1928, nom. nud.; Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 4: 215. 1929.
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Description
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Tree to 20 m. tall, frequently shorter. Leaves approximately 20-40 cm. long; leaflets 2-6 (-10) pairs, lanceolate-elliptical to elliptical, rarely broadly ovate-ellipti- cal, the base generally acute, the apex obtuse to acuminate-obtuse, glabrous to puberulous along the midrib above, glabrous to puberulous to scattered-pilose along the veins beneath (the specimens from the northern Antilles and north and west of Nicaragua on the mainland generally barbate in the axils of the veins beneath). Inflorescences shorter than the leaves, 3-20 or more cm. long, generally paniculate, less frequently nearly racemose, puberulent to pubescent. Flowers greenish-white to cream or pink, 4- to 5-(-6)-merous; calyx shallowly to definitely cupulate, the divisions often apiculate, glabrous to puberulous, the apicula frequently pubescent; petals spatulate, glabrous to completely puberulent without, usually with a lighter margin; staminal tube entire to obscurely lobed, rarely scattered-puberulent with- out; anthers 8-10 (-12); ovary glabrous to scattered-hirsute, borne on a narrow gynophore. Capsule red, glabrous, usually 4-valved, the largest seen about 2 cm. in diam., nearly globose, sometimes obscurely 4-sided, 4-seeded; seeds apparently al- ways entirely covered by a red aril.
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Tree
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Distribution
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A medium-sized tree of broad distribution in the forests of the West Indies, Mexico to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela and, perhaps, to Bolivia.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Zetek 15001; Rio Indio de Gatin, Pittier 2810. CHIRIQUi Remedios and vicinity, alt. 0-100 m., Pittier 5466; Progreso, Cooper & Slater 164, 168, 212, 229, 250. DARIEN: headwaters of the Rio Chico, alt. 500-750 ft., Allen 4625; vicinity El Real, Rio Tuira, Stern, Chambers, Dwyer & Ebinger 111; vicinity of Paya, Rio Paya, Stern, Chambers, Dwyer & Ebinger 182.
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