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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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Species
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TROPHIS RACEMOSA (L.) Urb.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Symb. Ant. 4:195. 1905.
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Synonym
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Bucephalon racemosum L. Sp. P1. 1 190. 175 3. Trophis americana L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1289. 1759. Trophis americana 0 ramon Bur. et y meridionalis Bur. in DC. Prodr. 17:2 53. 1873. Sahagunia urophylla Donn. Sm. in Bot Gaz. 40:11. 1905.
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Description
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Trees to about 15 m. in height. Leafy twigs rather slender, somewhat flexuose, glabrous, developing a yellowish gray bark. Leaves alternate, distichous, petiolate, the blade broadly oval to elliptic-oblong, occasionally irregularly pandurate, the tip subcaudate-acuminate, the base essentially equilateral and rounded to broadly obtuse, entire or somewhat serrate-undulate toward the tip, 6-20 cm. long, 2-9 cm. broad, firmly membranaceous, glabrous, the petiole 5-7 mm. long; stipules lateral, narrowly lanceolate, about 5 mm. long. Staminate spikes slender, 3-5 cm. long, bearing innumerable densely congested flowers interspersed with minute shortly stipitate peltate bracts: tepals 4, somewhat united at the base, broadly oval, about 2 mm. long, minutely papillate; stamens 4, the filaments about 3 mm. long, the anthers about 0.5 mm. long. Pistillate spikes rather short and strongly secund, 1.0-1.5 cm. long, densely and minutely ferruginous-puberulent, bearing rather few and distant sessile truncate conic flowers about 2 mm. long: perianth lobes minutely trigonal; stigma lobes about 1.5 mm. long. Fruits globose or ovoid, up to about 1 cm. long, reddish or yellowish, minutely puberulent.
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Habit
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Trees
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Distribution
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Southern Mexico to the Amazon basin.
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Common
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Ojoche macho lechosa
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Common
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ram6n gallote
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Common
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morillo breadnut
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Cooper t. Slater, 4, 4a, Seibert i58i, I583; Almirante, Cooper 349; Old Bank Island, Von Wedel 2075; Water Valley, Von Wedel I599; Rio Cricamola between Finca St. Louis and Konkintoe, Woodson, Allen & Seibert I924. CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Standley 4io80, 41o82; Culebra, Pittier 2255, 3627; between France Field and Catival, Standley 30296, 30235; Gamboa, Pittier 6636, 6637, 6652; Rio Pedro Miguel, near East Paraiso, Standley 29963; Gatu'n, Standley 27287; Fort Sherman, Standley 30970. CHIRIQUI: San Bartolome, Woodson & Schery 866.
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