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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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CARAPA GUIANENSIS Aubl.
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Hist. P1. Gui. Fr. Suppl. 32, tab. 387. 1775.
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Synonym
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Persoonia guareoides Willd. in L., Sp. PI. ed. 4 [i.e. 5], 2: 331. 1799. Amapa guinaensis (Aubl.) Steud., Nom. Bot. ed. 1, 69. 1821. Granatum guianense (Aubl.) 0. Ktze., Rev. Gen. P1. 1:110. 1891. Guarea mucronulata C. DC., Notizbl. K. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin 7: 499. 1917.
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Description
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Tree, medium to large, up to 50 m. tall. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, paripinnate, 24-60 cm. long; leaflets 3-7 (-9) pairs, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, the base cuneate to rounded, the apex rounded, apiculate or cuspidate, sometimes rounded to acute or acuminate, 11-48 cm. long, 3.5-15.5 cm. wide, glabrous on both surfaces. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate; bracts and bracteoles persistent, glabrous. Flowers white to yellowish or greenish, also dull red or purple, sessile to subsessile, 4-5 mm. long, 4-merous; sepals rounded or broadly ovate; petals imbricate in bud; staminal tube cupulate to urceolate, 8-toothed, the teeth truncate, ernarginate or irregularly toothed; anthers 8; disk shallow or concave and ridged; ovary 4-angulate, 4-celled; ovules 2 per cell. Fruit globose, 4-ridged, sometimes warty on the ridges; seeds 7-8, dark brown.
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Tree
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Distribution
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Moist forests particularly along rivers from the West Indies and British Hon- duras to Brasil. While no specimens have been collected from Panama, its presence in Costa Rica and Colombia indicates that this species is to be found in the forests of the Caribbean watershed of Panama.
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