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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 PUBIVENA Hemsl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Biol. Centr.-Amer. Bot. 3:150. 1883.
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Synonym
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Trophis macrostachya Donn. Sm. in Bot. Gaz. 40:10. 1905. Clarisia mollis Standl. in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 30:85. 1943.
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Description
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Trees to about 20 m. Leafy twigs rather thick (2-4 mm.), short-pubescent becoming glabrescent. Leaves alternate, distichous, petiolate, the blade broadly elliptic to elliptic-oblong, caudate-acuminate, the base equilateral and obtusely cuneate, entire to serrate-undulate, 10-30 cm. long, 5-10 cm. broad, firmly mem- branaceous, shortly pubescent beneath, the petiole about 8-20 mm. long; stipules narrowly acute, 6-8 mm. long. Staminate spikes 5-12 cm. long bearing numerous sessile flowers interspersed with minute peltate bracts; tepals 4, somewhat united at the base, about 2 mm. long, filaments broad and slightly connate at their base. Pistillate racemes short, elongating in fruit to 14 cm. bearing numerous flowers about 2 mm. long, the perianth thickened above, adnate to the ovary for about half its length. Drupes subglobose to ovoid, about 10 mm. broad.
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Habit
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Trees
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Distribution
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Costa Rica to Panama.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, Von Wedel 1090 (Type of Clarisia mollis Standl.); Almirante, Cooper d Slater 28. CHIRIQUI: Progreso, Cooper d Slater I74; vicinity of Gualaca, Allen 5059.
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