(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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POUROUMA SCOBINA R. Ben.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 28:320. 1922.
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Description
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Trees to about 30 m. tall, the branches stout, hollow, appressed-sericeous to glabrate. Leaves at maturity deeply 3-lobed, broadly cordate, about 10-25 cm. long and broad, the lobes divided about two-thirds to the petiole, the median lobe definitely constricted at the base, scaberulous above, pale and densely papillate beneath and appressed-sericeous along the veins, the petiole 20-30 cm. long, densely appressed-sericeous; stipules narrowly lanceolate, about 8-10 cm. long, densely ap- pressed-sericeous. Peduncles paired at the nodes, slightly shorter than the subtend- ing petioles, densely appressed-sericeous below, rubiginous-papillate above. Neither staminate nor pistillate flowers known from Panama. Fruits broadly compressed- ovoid, about 1.5 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, minutely puberulent.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Guatemala to the Guianas, in forests of intermediate elevations.
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Specimen
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COCLE: north of El Valle de Antbn, Allen 3742. DARIEN: Cana, Williams 983.
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Note
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Closely related to P. palmata Poeppig & Endl., in which the leaf base is typically truncate.
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