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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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BROSIMUM allenii Woodson
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Description
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Arbores magnae ut dicitur usque ca. 40 m. altitudine attingentes vulgo palo de vaca incolarum appelatur quod latice potabili, ramulis crassiusculis internodiis congestis glabris. Folia late ovato-elliptica abrupte brevissime acuminata basi rotunda 9-20 cm. longa 5-12 cm. lata coriacea omnino glabra, petiolis crassis ca. 1.5 cm. longis; stipulis amplexicaulibus ovatis longe acuminatis ca. 1.5 cm. longis cicatrice ramulum transverse cingenti. Inflorescentiae globosi ca. 1.5 cm. diam. metientes nostri monoici flore unico feminei cum masculis floribus multis, pedun- culo crasso perbrevi ca. 8 mm. longo; florum masculorum tepalis 5 inaequalibus ca. 1 mm. longis, staminibus 2 valde exsertis antheris oblongoideis basifixis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus ca. 1 mm. longis. Fructus non visi.
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Specimen
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COSTA RICA: PUNTARENAS: Esquinas forest, region between Rio Esquinas and Palmar Sur de Osa, alt. 75 m., Jan. 30, 1951, P. H. Allen 58I3 (US, HOLOTYPE).
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Note
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Mr. Allen reports that the latex of this species, which he associated with B. utile, the famous "cow tree" first discovered by von Humboldt, is "of good flavor, rather like condensed milk, good in coffee." I believe that B. allenii is sufficiently distinguishable from true B. utile through the characters of the preceding key.
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