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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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Species
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SOROCEA AFFINIS Hemsl.
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Biol. Centr.-Amer. Bot. 3:150. 1883.
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Description
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Trees to about 15 m. Leafy twigs rather slender, slightly flexuose, glabrous, developing a yellowish gray bark. Leaves alternate, distichous, petiolate, the blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic-obovate, abruptly subcaudate-acuminate, the base equilateral and acutely cuneate, more or less serrate-undulate toward the tip, 6-20 cm. long, 2-8 cm. broad, firmly membranaceous, glabrous, the petiole about 2-10 mm. long; stipules narrowly lanceolate, about 5 mm. long. Staminate racemes 2-8 cm. long, bearing numerous rather closely spaced flowers interspersed with minute peltate bracts, minutely puberulent-papillate: tepals 4, somewhat united at the base, broadly oval, about 2 mm. long. Pistillate raceme rather short, 1-3 cm. long, elongating in fruit, minutely puberulent-papillate, bearing 8 or more shortly pedicellate flowers about 2 mm. long, the perianth thickened above the middle of the flower. Drupes subglobose, about 8 mm. broad, green with orange tip or bright red when fully mature.
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Distribution
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Presently known only from lowland forests of Panama but probably extending south into Colombia.
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BOCAS DEL TORO: vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, Von Wedel iio3, I390; Water Valley, Von Wedel 598A, 96I, I7I5; Almirante, Cooper 554. CANAL ZONE: Quebrada Melgada, Steyermark I7494; Gatu'n, Johnston I582, i693; Gamboa, Standley 284I2; Las Cruces, Seibert 576; Barro Colorado Island, Aviles 26, 52, 84, Seibert 566, Bailey & Bailey 538, Starry 314, Woodworth & Vestal 323, Bangham 558, 479, Salvoza 966, Standley 40797, 4IO53; Trinidad River, Pittier 4034. CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Pittier 3045. COCLE: El Valle, Seibert 464. COLON: Fato (Nombre de Dios), Pittier 3856; Palenque, Pittier 4I23. DARIEN: Ensenada Guayabo, Stern & Chambers i8o. PANAMA: Arraijain, Wood- son, Allen & Seibert I383; Taboga Island, Hayes 658.
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