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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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FicuS TRACHELOSYCE Dugand
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Caldasia 4:69. fig. I4. 1942.
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Description
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Strangler trees to about 25 m. tall, the young branches slender, glabrous, devel- oping a thin yellowish periderm. Leaves oblong-elliptic, narrowly subcaudate- acuminate, broadly obtuse at the base, 6- 12 cm. long, 2.5-5.0 cm. broad, rather closely pinnate-veined, submembrana- ceous, glabrous, the petiole 1.5-2.0 cm. long, slender; stipules narrowly lanceolate, subcoriaceous, about 1.5 cm. long. Re- ceptacles paired at the nodes, subglobose, about 15 mm. broad, glabrous, the osteole depressed within a conspicuously elevated collar about 5 mm. long; involucral bracts 2, minutely deltoid, scarcely 1 mm. long; peduncle rather slender, about 5 mm. long.
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Distribution
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Panama and Colombia, probably also in southwestern Costa Rica, in lowland forests.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Puerto Armuelles, Allen 6295.
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Note
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The above description was prepared by Dr. Woodson. I strongly suspect that this is simply a form of Ficus pertusa.
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