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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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PEREBEA XANTHOCHYMA Karst.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fl. Colomb. 2:23. t. II2. 1862.
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Synonym
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Perebea integrifolia Karst. loc. cit. 1862. Castilloa markhamiana J. Collins, Rept. Caoutch. 12. t. 3. 1872. Perebea markhamiana (J. Collins) Benth. ex Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2 ser. 2:211. 1886. Perebea hispidula Standl. in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 29:3 50. 1942. Perebea molliflora Standl. & L. Wms. in Ceiba 3:41. 1952. Perebea trophophylla Standl. & L. Wms. loc. cit. 196. 1953.
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Description
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Small trees to about 10 m. tall, with rather slender and scarcely flexuose hispidulous to glabrate branches. Leaves oblong-elliptic, subcaudate, acuminate to abruptly subcuspidate at the tip, the base broadly obtuse to rounded, usually more or less conspicuously undulate-serrate toward the tip, infrequently subentire, 8-28 cm. long, 3-9 cm. broad, rather inconspicuously appressed-puberulent beneath to nearly glabrous, the petiole about 5 mm. long; stipules lanceolate, 5-10 mm. long. Staminate heads about 5 mm. in diameter, sessile or subsessile. Pistillate heads usually with about 5-10 flowers about 5 mm. in diameter, the peduncle rather slender, 3-5 mm. long, fruiting heads subsessile, about 1 cm. in diameter, the achenes to about 1 cm. long.
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Habit
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trees
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Distribution
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Costa Rica to Colombia, in lowland forests.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Daytonia Farm, Cooper 425; Old Bank Island, Von Wedel i935. CANAL ZONE: Gatu'n, Johnston i692.
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Note
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These sheets agree very well with Karsten's plate which illustrates both P. xanthochyma and P. integrifolia (the chief differentium of which would appear to be sex!), and with a fragment of Karsten's isotype of the former (F).
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