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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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MOLLINEDIA DARIENENSIS Standl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 22: 332. 1940.
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Description
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Dioecious shrubs 1.0-2.5 m. high, the branches glabrous and rather dark in drying. Leaves chartaceous, glabrescent, lance-ovate, apically acuminate, basally cuneate to sub-rounded, 9-16 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, with 5-9 irregular teeth on either side, the secondary veins 4-5 on either side, arcuately anastomosing 2-5 mm. from the margin; petioles ca. 10 mm. long, drying dark brown, glabrous or glabrate. Staminate flowers not known. Carpellate flowers solitary or geminate in the axils of the leaves, the pedicels glabrous or glabrate, ca. 10 mm. long, the peduncles 1-5 mm. long; bracts and bracteoles not apparent; flowers at anthesis not known. Fruits fleshy ellipsoid, rounded at both ends, smooth, drying black, 13-15 mm. long, ca. 10 mm. broad; receptacles reflexed, ca. 10 mm. broad; seeds ca. 12 mm. long, 9 mm. in diameter, the testa mottled.
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Habit
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shrubs
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Distribution
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Panama, known only from the type collection.
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Native
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Panama
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Specimen
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DARIEN: Cana-Cuasi Trail (Camp 2), Chepigana District, 3000 ft., Terry & Terry 1456.
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