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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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Species
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ODONTOCARYA PAUPERA (Griseb.) Diels,
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Engl. Pflanzenr. 4.94: 172. 1910.
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Synonym
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Chondodendron hederaefolium Miers, in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. 7:38. 1851, nom. nud. Cocculus pauper Griseb. in Gotting. Abh. 7:162. 1857. Chondodendron tomentosum Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 5: suppl. 2. 47. 1861. Odontocarya hederaefolia Miers, in Contrib. Bot. 3. 64. 1871. Odontocarya scabra Miers, loc. cit. 65. 1871.
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Description
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Climbing or scrambling shrubs; older stems thick and fleshy, conspicuously lenticellate, the younger stems striate, glabrous or essentially so. Leaves petiolate, the lamina broadly ovate to subhastate, entire, the apex acute or obtuse, mucronate, the base cordate or rarely obscurely truncate, 4.5-9.5 cm. long, 3.0-6.0 cm. wide, membranous, pubescent or puberulent above with conspicuous glandular areas between the base of the midrib and lowest diverging nerves, pubescent below; petiole 2.0-8.0 cm. long, pubescent or puberulent. Staminate inflorescence axil- lary, racemiform, about 7 cm. long, the rachis puberulent; bracts and bracteoles about 1.0-1.5 mm. long. Staminate flowers: Sepals 6, the 3 exterior ovate or elliptic, sparsely toothed, 1.2-2.0 mm. long, 0.6-1.0 mm. wide, membranous, essentially glabrous, the 3 interior conspicuously larger, obovate, the apex obtuse or rounded, 1.8-3.5 mm. long, 1.5-2.2 mm. wide, glabrous; petals 6, elliptic, carnose, 1.5-2.6 mm.
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Habit
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shrubs
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Description
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long, 1.0-1.8 mm. wide, glabrous; stamens 6, 1.0-1.8 mm. long, the filaments more or less coherent. Pistillate inflorescence an axillary raceme, about 9 cm. long, the rachis puberulent; bracts and bracteoles about 1.0 mm. long. Pistillate flowers: Sepals and petals similar to the staminate; carpels 1-3, gibbose, free, sessile, the style not evident, the stigma 3-lobed. Drupe ovoid, about 1 cm. long, 0.5 cm. wide; endocarp semi-ellipsoid, verrucose, ribbed.
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Distribution
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Panama, Lesser Antilles and northern South America.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Balboa, moist thicket, Standley 27130; in Powell Garden, Standley 41189; vicinity of Miraflores, G. White 121; locality omitted, Johansen 70. PANAMA: Isla Taboga, ca. 0-186 in., Woodson, Allen & Seibert 1486; Las Sabanas, wet thicket, Standley 40778, Paul 599; San Jose Island, Perlas Archipelago, Erlanson 581, 546, Johnston 7, 786.
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Note
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There has been considerable taxonomic confusion and misdetermination be- tween this species and Odontocarya nitid'a. The two species are readily dis- tinguished, however, as Odontocarya paupera possesses distinctive glandular areas on the leaf, an essentially glabrous flower with six sepals, and staminate in- florescences which are borne upon the main stem of the vine. Odontocarya nitida has a leaf devoid of glandular areas, a pubescent flower with 18 sepals, and staminate inflorescences which are borne on short congested secondary branches.
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