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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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Species
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CECROPIA OBTUSIFOLIA Bertol.
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Fl. Guat. 39. 1840.
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Synonym
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Cecropia schiedeana K1. in Linnaea 20:531. 1847. Cecropia bicolor K1. loc. cit. 1847. Cecropia digitata Ten. ex Miq. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 41:149. 1853. Cecropia cormmutata Schott, ex Miq. loc. cit. 148. 1853. Cecropia mexicana Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. 3:151. 1883. Cecropia panamensis Hemsl. loc. cit. 1883. Cecropia vogeleri Burret, in Notizbl. 9:49. 1924. Cecropia mexicana var. macrostachya Donn. Sm. in Bot. Gaz. 27:442. 1899.
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Description
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Trees to about 10 m. tall or more, with stout seldom-branching trunks, the young branches stout, ferruginous-hirtellous to glabrate. Mature leaves divided nearly to the center, scabridulous above, paler and minutely cinereous beneath, the lobes usually 9-13, conspicuously contracted toward the base, rounded to shortly acuminate at the tip, the petioles rather slender, minutely ferruginous- hirtellous, with the basal pulvinus densely ferruginous-velutinous. Staminate spadices usually in clusters of 3, 12-16 cm. long and about 4 mm. thick, subsessile or with slender puberulent stipes to about 5 mm. long, the spathes 12-20 cm. long shortly before anthesis, narrowly oblongoid-fusiform and frequently somewhat falcate, rather sparsely arachnoid-villosulose, the common peduncle about 5-10 cm. long, relatively slender. Pistillate spadices in clusters of 3-4, 25-30 cm. long and about 5 mm. thick at anthesis, somewhat accrescent in fruit, sessile or with a very indefinite stipe, the spathes about 16-20 cm. long shortly before anthesis,
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Tree
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Description
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narrowly oblongoid-fusiform and frequently somewhat falcate, sparsely arachnoid- villosulose to glabrate, the common peduncle 8-14 cm. long, nearly glabrous.
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Distribution
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Southern Mexico to northern South America, in lowland clearings, thickets and secondary forests.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Water Valley, Von Wedel 77I, I559. CANAL ZONE: Las Cruces Trail, Hunter d Allen 462; Gatuin, Standley 27304; Masambi, Pittier 2673; Darien Station, Macbride 2697; Summit, Harvey 5282; Monte Lirio, Christopherson i95; Taber- nilla, Pittier 3826; Barro Colorado Island, Wetmore & Abbe I28, 204, Woodworth d Vestal 644, Kenoyer 309. DARIEN: Pinogana, Allen 43I. VERAGUAS: Santa Fe to Rio Santa Maria, Allen 4422.
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