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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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POULSENIA ARMATA (Miq.) Standl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Trop. Woods 33:4. 1933.
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Synonym
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Olmedia (?) armata Miq. in Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 196. 1854. Poulsenia aculeata Eggers, in Bot. Centralbl. 73:66 [err. 50]. 1898. Inophloem armata (Miq.) Pittier, in Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 6:113. 1916. Coussapoa rekoi Standl. in Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20:211. 1919.
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Description
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Trees to 25 m. tall, all young parts scatteringly hispid and aculeate to glabrous and smooth. Leaves broadly and rather obliquely oval or elliptic, the tip obtuse or rounded to shortly subcuspidate-acuminate, the base broadly obtuse, 8-40 cm. long, 4-20 cm. broad, entire, subcoriaceous, the petiole 1-3 cm. long; stipules 2-3 cm. long. Staminate heads globose, without an obvious involucre, many-flowered, about 1 cm. in diameter. Pistillate heads subglobose or ovoid, without an obvious involucre, 3-9-flowered, about 1.5 cm. in diameter. Mature fruiting heads unknown to us.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Cooper d Slater 88; Almirante, Cooper 455. CANAL ZONE: Alhajuela, Pittier 373I; Gatu'n Valley, Pittier s. n.; Barro Colorado Islani, Shattuck I 04, Carpenter 75. COLON: Dos Bocas, Fato Valley, Pittier 4202. DARIEN: Pinogana, Pittier s. n.
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Note
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Pittier reports that the bark is very thick and fibrous and is soaked and pounded into cloth (mastate) by the Darien Indians, a use previously reported by Seemann.
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